On 5/20/2014 8:15 PM, Ignoramus23449 wrote:
Today, we had the most inredible hail storm that I ever remember.

We saved a few pieces in the freezer. Look at the pictures with a
ruler and a lego person. Some are 2 inches long.

http://www.machinerymoverschicago.co...ge-Hail-Storm/


Babies! Altho still tough on roofs, cars, etc., ... We're so dry
I've been telling townies that worry about it "it'll melt" and there
aren't enough crops left from drought that it'll matter much for them
anyway as far as wheat harvest this year.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/worlds-largest-hailstones

Worst one I've seen since one clear back when was very young that I
remember piled up several inches deep was about 2005 or
6--softball-sized and larger w/ 80 mph winds that lasted about 45
minutes. Wind so strong that from about three feet off the ground to
the ground it shredded the vinyl siding on the east/north side of the
Sonic drive-in building behind the overhang for the drivein booths --
probably 15'.

An empty 2nd-floor apartment on east side of Mom's assisted-living
facility had nothing in it including the drapes had been taken down for
cleaning. Broke the windows and so near horizontal from wind drove them
thru half-inch sheetrock on the inner wall about 8-ft from outer...

We've got t-storm chances for tonight thru Monday -- we're hoping. It's
been so dry last three years we've not had a decent t-storm in that
whole period which is our rain source. April totalled 0.3" and nothing
measurable so far in May. The "rainy season" has barely another month
before summer arrives in full force...

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