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Posted: 9/16/2009 6:23:52 PM EDT

More to follow but these are intertaining non the less...

It lasted for a good 8 - 10 minutes. It took out ALL 80 skylights in the plant. People and shit flew everywhere.

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:24:35 PM EDT

[#1]

Holy Shit!

Where do you live?

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:24:51 PM EDT

[#2]

Whoa!

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:25:04 PM EDT

[#3]

take cover!!!!

and i hope whomever owned that car had insurance

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:26:07 PM EDT

[#4]

RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:26:44 PM EDT

[#5]

meh, sue god.

or mother nature.

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:27:03 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Holy Shit!

Where do you live?

This. Your location of "USA" doesn't narrow it down much.
On-topic I am glad my car sleeps in the garage. We had a little hail last week... pea size, not enough to do damage, but I was relieved that my car and my bike are in the garage, protected from that crap.

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:27:18 PM EDT

[#7]

Al Gore warned us this would happen... HE WARNED US!!!

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:27:28 PM EDT

[#8]

damn that sucks. I know, I've been through it before

this is from 3 years ago in Ohio, where we're lucky to see pea sized hail normally

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:27:32 PM EDT

[#9]

Damn...what state are you in?

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:27:37 PM EDT

[#10]

40% of the windshields were taken out in our parking lot.

I felt like I was in a dooms day movie. No shit.

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:47:23 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Holy Shit!

Where do you live?

This. Your location of "USA" doesn't narrow it down much.

On-topic I am glad my car sleeps in the garage. We had a little hail last week... pea size, not enough to do damage, but I was relieved that my car and my bike are in the garage, protected from that crap.

Location?

Posted: 9/16/2009 6:49:49 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
40% of the windshields were taken out in our parking lot.

I felt like I was in a dooms day movie. No shit.

Plains state?

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:06:38 PM EDT

[#13]

I bet that got real interesting, real fast!!!

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:07:49 PM EDT

[#14]

my car was totaled back in july from huge hail

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:08:58 PM EDT

[#15]

Wow!

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:11:41 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Wow!

I guess Colorado. Oh yeah, holy shit!

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:13:26 PM EDT

[#17]

It's ok, it will buff out.

That is some crazy stuff. Only have seen hail one time, but it wasn't even bigger than a pea.

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:14:28 PM EDT

[#18]

dang, that glass didn't' have a chance

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:18:03 PM EDT

[#19]

We got caught in a hail storm like that several years ago. Beat the hell out of my father in law's truck and cracked the windshield. Highways are not the place to be when it hails.

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:20:19 PM EDT

[#20]

Sorry to see the damage. There was a car dealer in Alabama that lost a whole lot of cars to hail a few years ago.

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:22:43 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
More to follow but these are intertaining non the less...

It lasted for a good 8 - 10 minutes. It took out ALL 80 skylights in the plant. People and shit flew everywhere.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr326/fullmoontide/hail3.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr326/fullmoontide/hail2.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr326/fullmoontide/hail1.jpg

Fun, aint it? We had a big one last year. Nothing really this year though. From last year.

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:27:13 PM EDT

[#22]

what do you have to protect by not posting your state?

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:37:39 PM EDT

[#23]

Real T'storms in the US currently run from east Texas to Alabama, with the biggest in central Alabama.

Coupla dinky ones in New Mexico, coupla T'showers in new York State.

Best guess Mississippi, Louisiana, or Alabama.

Ran into hail like that once. Kids in the car, we dodged an on-ground twister via commercial radio reports, no visual sighting, just waited, then slid down the back side of the cell.

Far side of town we tied another cell arriving at my home. Radio threw the very specific tornado warning as we turned in the drive, plan was to leave groceries in the car and dive for the storm shelter under the house, but before we got to the end of the drive, golf ball hail was hammering us, so we had to run for it in the vehicle.

Up past 60 mph, the hail wanted to cave in the windshield, below that there was the chance of the twister catching us. At night the only way to track a twister is from blue flashes as it takes down power poles, but this storm had a lightning core in it so we couldn't tell the difference.

I remember telling the kids in a calm smooth voice that there was little to worry about, while hollering at the top of my lungs to be heard over the hail. Sounded like a football team with jackhammers trying to cut into the truck.

Eventually we ran out of the east side of it, and the storm's southeasterly course put us in the clear slot between storms, got back to the house, all ok, the groceries hadn't even thawed out too much.

No damage to the truck. The hailstones were just a fuzz shy of hard frozen, like chunky, not quite soft enough to be called slush, more like snowballs with rocks inside.

Bad juju...don't want to do that again.

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:38:58 PM EDT

[#24]

Hail Sale at all the local car lots!

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:44:25 PM EDT

[#25]

HOLY CRAP!!

Posted: 9/16/2009 7:50:18 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Holy Shit!

Where do you live?

This. Your location of "USA" doesn't narrow it down much.

On-topic I am glad my car sleeps in the garage. We had a little hail last week... pea size, not enough to do damage, but I was relieved that my car and my bike are in the garage, protected from that crap.

Location?

...the plant...

Posted: 9/16/2009 8:07:27 PM EDT

[#27]

I bet the auto-glass repairman gets a hard on when he see's this on the news!

Posted: 9/16/2009 8:39:19 PM EDT

[#28]

Back in the mid-1800's there were reports of hailstorms in the plains states that killed large numbers of buffalo in several herds. How the people survived to count the dead buffalo they never addressed...

Posted: 9/16/2009 8:42:45 PM EDT

[#29]

Not sure if this was asked yet or not...

WHAT FUCKING STATE ARE YOU IN ???

Posted: 9/16/2009 8:45:03 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Back in the mid-1800's there were reports of hailstorms in the plains states that killed large numbers of buffalo in several herds. How the people survived to count the dead buffalo they never addressed...

My guess is that they were indoors.

Posted: 9/16/2009 8:45:22 PM EDT

[#31]

I'll guess El Paso

Posted: 9/16/2009 8:47:05 PM EDT

[#32]

What state in this great US of A?

Posted: 9/16/2009 8:48:50 PM EDT

[#33]

The state of fake.......busted glass but no dents easily seen in metal finish,never saw square holes either.Maybe a gravel truck dropped some rocks or something

Posted: 9/16/2009 8:48:56 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Not sure if this was asked yet or not...

WHAT FUCKING STATE ARE YOU IN ???

This

Posted: 9/16/2009 8:49:09 PM EDT

[#35]

After checking out today's storm reports, I'm going to put my money on the OP being from El Paso, TX.
Storm Reports

233117510 SE HORIZON CITY EL PASO TX315710607REPORTED SEVERE STORM WAS CONTINUING TO PROCEED SOUTHEAST, FOLLOWING I-10. A LOT OF GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WITH CONSIDERABLE VEHICLE DAMAGE. ARROYOS RUNNING FULL. (EPZ)

ETA: Good call Merrell.

Posted: 9/16/2009 8:56:54 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:

40% of the windshields were taken out in our parking lot.

I felt like I was in a dooms day movie. No shit.

well that sucks and all...even worse than I've been through. But you still haven't answered where this was?

You in a witness protection program?

Posted: 9/16/2009 9:06:12 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Real T'storms in the US currently run from east Texas to Alabama, with the biggest in central Alabama.

Coupla dinky ones in New Mexico, coupla T'showers in new York State.

Best guess Mississippi, Louisiana, or Alabama.

Ran into hail like that once. Kids in the car, we dodged an on-ground twister via commercial radio reports, no visual sighting, just waited, then slid down the back side of the cell.

Far side of town we tied another cell arriving at my home. Radio threw the very specific tornado warning as we turned in the drive, plan was to leave groceries in the car and dive for the storm shelter under the house, but before we got to the end of the drive, golf ball hail was hammering us, so we had to run for it in the vehicle.

Up past 60 mph, the hail wanted to cave in the windshield, below that there was the chance of the twister catching us. At night the only way to track a twister is from blue flashes as it takes down power poles, but this storm had a lightning core in it so we couldn't tell the difference.

I remember telling the kids in a calm smooth voice that there was little to worry about, while hollering at the top of my lungs to be heard over the hail. Sounded like a football team with jackhammers trying to cut into the truck.

Eventually we ran out of the east side of it, and the storm's southeasterly course put us in the clear slot between storms, got back to the house, all ok, the groceries hadn't even thawed out too much.

No damage to the truck. The hailstones were just a fuzz shy of hard frozen, like chunky, not quite soft enough to be called slush, more like snowballs with rocks inside.

Bad juju...don't want to do that again.

You may want to add a few states to that list that have some serious hail storms, like South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma..... keep heading east till you hit the Atlantic. Worst stuff I have ever seen was on the panhandle, flipped 18 wheelers over for miles and flattened a few towns.

Posted: 9/16/2009 9:11:07 PM EDT

[#38]

Lock the thread!

Posted: 9/16/2009 9:24:19 PM EDT

[#39]

I saw hail like that once in New Mexico... except I was caught out in the open in the backwoods.

That shit HURTS.

Posted: 9/16/2009 9:32:13 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

I saw hail like that once in New Mexico... except I was caught out in the open in the backwoods.

That shit HURTS.

Yeah. I got caught in a storm with similarly-sized hail when I was a kid, before I could get to cover, I took one to the side and one to the head. Not fun.