LiveMusic Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 Tedster, your meteorologist funny bone will like this. Last night about midnight, it came one helluva thunderstorm. TORRENTIAL rain. Man, it was gettin' it. Sounded like the roof was gonna fall in so I flicked on the outside light and peeked outside. There was small, pea-size hail bouncing around amongst the torrential rain. But hey, some of them on the ground were the size of golf balls! Big suckers. I could see about a dozen whoppers. I cringed at the thought of my car out there. Hail that big will demolish your car. Unbelievable destruction. But out of curiousity, I wanted to pick some up. To freeze some and give to a girlfriend who loves bad weather. And I wanted to cut one in half and look at it in cross-section. It took me a bit to get the nerve up to go out there, as it was raining SO hard. But, what the hey, I figured I could just towel off like I had taken a shower. I got out there to pick up the big ones and got the first one and let out a "Shit!" Golf ball. Real golf balls. I had been hitting some golf balls in the back yard recently. Brain fart #10,678. I got way too much on my mind these days. > > > [ Live! ] < < < Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 Damn, is your car still in one piece :freak: ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylver Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 OMG Duke that is so funny. File it under "Doh!" I really don't know what to put here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R. Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 So did you freeze one? Bet if you put one in the freezer, some frost will gather on it. You can still impress your girlfriend, or see if she falls for it. Very funny. -David R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveMusic Posted March 20, 2002 Author Share Posted March 20, 2002 [quote]Originally posted by David R.: [b]So did you freeze one? Bet if you put one in the freezer, some frost will gather on it. You can still impress your girlfriend, or see if she falls for it. Very funny.[/b][/quote]I don't hunt any more but I used to, a lot. Back in high school, I went duck hunting before school one day and got three mallards. Before I got to school, I got out and stuck them into my grill on my car. My girlfriend (different girl from the one who likes bad weather) met me in the parking lot, as usual. A real Einstein, she was. (EDIT: Uh... kinda like a guy I know who mistook golf balls for hail one time.) She said "Hey, you've got ducks sticking out of your grill!" I said "Really? Man, I thought I'd missed them. There were so many ducks today, they were in the road and stuff. It was raining and I think they thought the highway was a river or something and they landed on the road. I swerved and thought I'd missed them. Hey, my lucky day! Gumbo tonight!" To this day, she still talks about the poor ducks that I bagged with my Chevy II. > > > [ Live! ] < < < Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Those are hilarious stories, Duke...I'm gonna pass the golf balls one around the office. We have meteorologist-golfers here, too...hahahaaha.... "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip OKeefe Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 LOL! GREAT stories... Strange, but we got nailed with a hailstorm two nights ago. Same thing - it was POUNDING the roof. I opened the door about a foot and I had hail fly three feet into the room. The stuff was coming down nearly horizontally due to the high winds (gusts were at about 60 mph - pretty common around here). Hail about the size of large peas, or small beans. Next day, warm and clear. Today, well, it must be 80 degrees out there. [img]http://www.freakygamers.com/smilies/s2/contrib/navigator/usa.gif[/img] Phil O'Keefe Sound Sanctuary Recording Riverside CA http://www.ssrstudio.com pokeefe777@ssrstudio.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R. Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Duke, somehow you have to tie those stories together, so the punch line is "Wow, look at the size of those frozen balls on that duck. No wonder he couldn't fly. Must have been why you hit 'em..." :D :cry: :D -David R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpine Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 My little hail story. About the middle of June last year we had the hail storm from hell. I had three of my cars outside and the windshields on all of them were broken. Zillions of little dents on all of them too. The house servived, but the hail ripped all the screens off the west side. Almost all the hail was golfball sized but the ones that went through the windows of the car were the size of baseballs. We found one that had a diameter of 4.5 inches. jim www.relayerstudios.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackpine Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 BTW Hey Tedster, As long as were on the weather. What's the best web site for weather forcasts? I'm kind of a weather junkie myself. Figured you would be clued into whats good. jim www.relayerstudios.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R. Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Jim, I'm not Tedster (but I play him on TV), but my favorite weather site is [url=http://www.wunderground.com/]Wunderground[/url] . Your forcast may vary... 4 1/2" chunks of ice falling from the sky? Wow, think I'll stick with [url=http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm]earthquakes[/url] . -David R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natty fred Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Woah thats a great story, very funny, but Im tellin ya, you dont want to be out in a storm when there IS hail the size of golf balls . Maybe 15yrs ago now, it was about 4.30pm and I had been helping a friends out with some work for a project, I was standing at the bus stop across the road and it was a really hot, blue sky day, not a cloud in the sky cept this one big bank of very black clouds moving directly towards me at some tremendous speed. Within 10mins it was almost on me (and no bus). Next thing Im running for the shed/office (my friends was on a 1/2 acre block) as it was the closest building, Geoff had gone back into his house maybe 500 m away but that was to far for me to make. (This was in Terrey Hills/Duffys Forest, if any of you have seen the show "Skippy", kinda like an Oz version of Lassie but with a kangaroo, well Skippy lived just down the road,) Wind was howling by now and I wind down all the roller shutters on the windows thinkin "this is gonna be real bad" then BOOM it hits, almost instantly all the windows exploded inwards, and Im hiding under a desk. The hail was huge some as big as baseballs, Im not kidding, and travelling almost horizontally at some amazing speed. Then the building starts to rock :eek: man, I dont think I have ever been so terrified! The door rips off! and then Im diving out under this big old truck, tried to get it towed away but nothing could budge that thing, Im so happy it was still there. Geoff had seen the storm coming too, and took refuge in a room on the off side of the house from the direction of the storm, good thing too, by the time the storm had passed, it only lasted 10 minutes the devastation was immense. All of a sudden there was total silence, like I mean TOTAL silence, not a bird, no rain, no nothing, so I look out and theres clear blue sky again, not a single cloud. But there was also not a single tree still standing, and this was in he middle of a national park :eek: I headed straight up to the house and only half of it was still there. Geoff and co were all right but as shaken as me, and the walls on the opposite sides of the room from where the hail had come thru the windows had dents the size of my hand! Unbelievable. Cars looked like they had been in a demolition derby, the bus had stopped just down the road and didnt look much like a bus anymore. Another half hr and the emergency services had arrived but there was no point in me hanging about so some guy gave me a lift back to my place, no windows in the car, real messed up, but we were ok, it was good to get home. Turns out that it was like a mini typhoon, from what I remember there was a row of about 3 or 4 suburbs that had just been completely flattened, but no-one was killed amazingly (tho a lot of animals died, Terrey Hills was a "horsey" suburb). Wow, sorry for the long post but that brought back some memories . peace, natty [img]http://www.theunholytrinity.org/cracks_smileys/contrib/fk/butterfly.gif[/img] ps; just found a link [url=http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/nsw/inside/sevwx/public/21jan91.shtml]here[/url] showing a map, just above Sydney is a suburb Hornsby, near Terrey Hills and the big pink blob rips thru..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip McDonald Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 About 15 years ago here in Augusta Georgia, it was a nice sunny, warm spring day... Then suddenly, in under a minute, a hail storm erupted. SURREAL hail storm; I looked out a window at my carparked just 10 feet away, *and couldn't see it* - then it got scary to be near windows.... THEN it got scary, period. It sounded like the house was going to collapse. It was probably over 98 db inside, just kept getting louder and louder. Lasted about 5 minutes. Despite being over 80 degrees outside, you couldn't see the ground because of all of the hail. There was a boulder in my parents backyard about the size of a bowling ball; had that gone through their roof it could have killed them. As it was it killed birds and people's pets, and single handedly was a the biggest boon to the local auto repair industry: my car looked like it had been used for target practice at a driving range, along with everyone else's. Tore roofs off of houses, tore the side off of a cousin's house.... Supposedly put some people in the hospital; lucky no one was killed. Totally out of the blue. That was right about around the time when people started saying things like "seems like the weather is starting to do weird things".... Of course now we take it for granted, but back then - man, that was really weird. Guitar Lessons in Augusta Georgia: www.chipmcdonald.com Eccentric blog: https://chipmcdonaldblog.blogspot.com/ / "big ass windbag" - Bruce Swedien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveMusic Posted March 22, 2002 Author Share Posted March 22, 2002 Chip, a bowling ball? My gosh, are you sure? Man, that is incredible. I've heard of baseball sized, sometimes softball sized but the softball sized always get downgraded to baseball sized and the baseball sized get downgraded to tennis ball sized. Of course, tennis ball sized could kill you, I guess. Wouldn't that be a bitch... it's be like getting stoned to death. I guess that's how cows and stuff get killed. Hell, a bowling ball, that's a friggin' bomb! Tedster, if you read this, what's the record for a hailstone? We have tornados around here. Few years ago, real bad one. It is UNBELIEVABLE what a bad tornado can do. Pictures on TV do not come close to showing you. You just can't believe it. I've never seen a bombed out city but it's gotta look just like that. That one that hit Jarrell, Texas, that's gotta be a record. It literally wiped out the whole damn town. I mean, nothing left but slabs of concrete. I wonder how far it took stuff off and finally dropped it... like paper and stuff. > > > [ Live! ] < < < Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franknputer Posted March 22, 2002 Share Posted March 22, 2002 So...I was going over the back fence at the driving rage one day, when all of a sudden, out of nowhere - damn! Golf balls the size of hailstones... :freak: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.