Last night, Northfield (about 40 minutes south of Minneapolis) got hit by a major hailstorm. My brother's Passat was totalled by baseball-sized hail, and many others had damage to windows, trees, cars, and yard furniture. Northfield.org has collected more than 100 photos of the monster iceballs and the destruction.All photos courtesy Northfield Citizens Online/Northfield.org.
17 comments:
There is no such thing as global warming. Yeah, riiigght..
Why wasn't anything else damaged on the VW? Just the windshield.
windshield 0, rear brake light 1
and what about the car in the back ground - no damage there either.
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Anon, people like you who use every single abnormal weather event as anecdotal (yet unsubstantiated scientifically in almost every instance) evidence of global warming really do a great injustice to those who approach Global Warming rationally, from a scientific point of view. You're a credit to the global-warming-deniers' cause...
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P.S. The photo pool of Northfield hail at Flickr is now up to 198 shots.
What a crock. We're supposed to believe that hail made those three nice, neat holes in that chair? That must have been some extremely powerful hail!
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How can anyone think this was a fake? That hail was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. (similar sized in Belle Plaine and Jordan, where I live) yes, the force of that hail hitting can do some odd things. Ever seen the video of 4x4 boards being driven through a cement wall? yeah, it is true.. it happens. Nice pictures, thanks for sharing
Olaf grad here. I heard about the hail- pretty crazy stuff.
Cool pictures.
Allright! the same phenomena happened here, in Buenos Aires, Argentina last week. My VWPointer was left like a golf range.. and the plastic chair in my terrace (same model as in your pics)looks exactly the same. 60 % of the cars in this city show the awful effects of the hail (4PM, no warning!)not to talk about the many damaged roofs and the 14 people injuried by the devilish ice balls!!
Hah... global warming is an obscure invention of those dirty pinko greenpeace macs.. har har har...
Super-size hail is real and does awesome damage. There was a monster hail storm in Sydney, Australia a few years ago (14 April 1999) that did over a billion dollars in damage... yes, a Billion.
Destroyed or damaged appprox 40 thousand cars, and damaged 20 thousand homes.
a few more shots here
Wild photos!
Stupid comments! (from some of the idiots who have nothing better to do than complain)
Thanks for posting the pics, and for the patience in dealing with the idiots. ;)
nothing else was really damaged on the car because those are made of almost entirely plastic. i had a newer jetta for a while and ran into so many things and nothing would happen. you can see some dents if you look, though.
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