Mrs.Tank
Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:53:00 PM
We just had a storm front hit. Left behind a bit of hail. I took a picture of some of it with a scale guide next to them.

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Mrs.Tank
Friday, April 14, 2006 4:29:00 AM
Walked around the complex last night. Only 1 busted window on our side. I helped the owner tape plastic on it until she could get ahold of her insurance company to find out what to do. She has had the car only a few days.
Slimboli
Friday, April 14, 2006 5:08:00 AM
Oh my gawd ... that's some hail !!!

For a minute there though ... when I first opened this thread ...

... I thought they were some of your culinary delights ... LOL!

Kingfish
Friday, April 14, 2006 5:24:00 AM
an cookies too!! HAR-HAR-HAR!

Harrumph! Ok, on serius side, dems as big as de cotton on the farm backs home. Lets me know if yoah needs representations agisnt hale damages.

We specialicez in natral katastrophies 'n such includin tp rollin attacks.

Mrs.Tank
Friday, April 14, 2006 5:38:00 AM
I have several new dings on the tankmobiles, but since they are getting on in years, I am not gonna worry about them.

Normally, watching hail hit the ground is fun cause it bounces up when it hits, like popcorn. Last night was different, in that it was like snowballs fired by a cannon.

One of the neighbor kids tossed one piece of hail up in the air and stood underneath it when it came down to see if it hurt. It did. (what an idiot)

Never said he was on the bright side.

Baron Porthos
Friday, April 14, 2006 6:16:00 AM
We had a nice little rainstorm.
Bjaardker
Friday, April 14, 2006 7:33:00 AM
HOLY HELL!

That is some serious hail!

I'm glad that we missed that. When the storms were coming through I was on I94 headed back out to fort from Waukesha.

The radio said, "Softball sized hail reported 4 minutes ago in Oconomowoc", just as I'm passing the sign that says "Oconomowoc 11 miles". Thankfully it went north. Travelling 60 MPH and hitting those would be scary.

Even scarier than hitting a suicidal bird. 😉

ruggysgirl
Friday, April 14, 2006 7:41:00 AM
Gracious sakes, I'm glad you didn't get any tornadoes out of that hail storm. By the looks of those hail stones it would have been an ugly one if it was.
sw48362
Friday, April 14, 2006 7:44:00 AM
Great for beverages. Mothers natures way of saying, you need a drink.
JHC
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Friday, April 14, 2006 8:39:00 AM
Fill the freezer. Great size for the cooler.
ChrisND
Friday, April 14, 2006 9:07:00 AM
Looks like snowman poop to me!
zoinks
Friday, April 14, 2006 9:45:00 AM
We had just finished with our passover meal at a friends house and were helping clean up the dishes when it started.

We all went to the front window and watched it bounce off the cars. Everyone was saying how it was unbelievable the hail was so big (we picked up ones about 2" in diameter).

My comment was "At least there's no fire."

They all just sort of looked at me funny. Which I thought was extremely strange since we had just finished the ten plagues...I guess they just have no sense of humor.

Exodus 9:23-24

Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.

So there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

jetblasted
Friday, April 14, 2006 9:53:00 AM
Wowzers . . .
JonR
Friday, April 14, 2006 10:16:00 AM
Yo zoinks:

"So there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation."

You are correct about the "fire + hail". I just watched the new two part "Moses movie" on ABC. Man that Moses was one ruthless dude, having his people kill the wounded enemy who lay on the battle field was one thing but killing his own men ( because they wanted to worship a different God) and then slaughtering their wives and children was another thing.

JonR

zoinks
Friday, April 14, 2006 12:26:00 PM
Yeah, that was some staff he had, eh?

Since that joke bombed, I didn't even try these:

"Sure glad we missed the frogs and gnats!"

and

"Let's get out of here quick, they didn't mark the door posts."

myash07
Friday, April 14, 2006 7:20:00 PM
Wowsers!
andytv
Saturday, April 15, 2006 2:33:00 AM
that one piece of hail looks JUST like a LA Sapphire Tubos.
blackfoot11
Saturday, April 15, 2006 5:32:00 AM
for once i'm glad i'm north of ya, deb.
Mrs.Tank
Saturday, April 15, 2006 5:43:00 AM
We were able to go over the cars yesterday. Several good sized dings. The neighbor already has a new back window.

We pulled one of the hail stones out of the freezer and gave it to the 10 year old next door (she wasn't allowed to come out to get her own) She was tickled.

The tube was just so you had a clue how big the stones were.... If tubes were falling like hail, Tank would have been running around out there in his underwear picking them up....

Mrs.Tank
Saturday, April 15, 2006 5:44:00 AM
We are looking forward to coming up there.

Don't forget, we will be in Green Bay the 28th, 29, and 30th. Call me for more info.