Storm is hail on earth for jogger!

epgc3fyqirnbsx

It's a headline from the Sun online (I came across it with stumbleupon right :mad:) about some fella who was jogging and got caught in a hail storm with hail stones the size of golf balls. There's a pic with the story and the lad looks like he got battered!
See here

Four college students in the US town of Grinnell near Des Moines, Iowa, had to be taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs after being pelted by the huge chunks of ice.

They were rescued from the side of the road — from a ditch they were using for cover — by motorist Pat Crawford and her husband who drove them to safety.

Mrs Crawford was so shocked by one of the boys injuries she snapped pictures of the welts which covered his body.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2924651/Storm-is-hail-on-earth-for-jogger.html#ixzz0koyprEOY

My name is URL

Sorry for stealing the guy's thunder.. but wtf @ the top story on that page!

epgc3fyqirnbsx

My name is URL wrote: »

Sorry for stealing the guy's thunder.. but wtf @ the top story on that page!

Holy **** I didn' even spot that! Top story on the Sun, doesn't feature anywhere else. Must be true!

Why did the film stop at 30 seconds!?

galwayrush

Looks more like a bad skin disease.:rolleyes:

Kiera

The hail in OZ is the same so not surprised by it at all.

AnonoBoy

Wesson Witty Colon wrote: »

Holy **** I didn' even spot that! Top story on the Sun, doesn't feature anywhere else. Must be true!

Why did the film stop at 30 seconds!?

Because that's all they had time to fake?

FreeHugs

There's nothing like being picked up off the side of the road by strangers and letting them take pictures of your naked body....

bazmaiden

Kiera wrote: »

The hail in OZ is the same so not surprised by it at all.

Ye my cousin sent me a few pics of the damage that a recent hail storm did in melbourne, pretty shocking

whadabouchasir

galwayrush wrote: »

Looks more like a bad skin disease.:rolleyes:

No this is a bad skin disease

Racist.

whadabouchasir

Deleted User wrote: »

Racist.

In fairness you can't say that she's a racist from just the picture.

It was a low brow joke.. Nevermind.

Michellenman

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Because that's all they had time to fake?

Linkage?

That chap looks pretty beat up. Hail stones are horrible enough when they're normal sized as it is.

Capt'n Midnight

Hailstones in the American Mid West ?

It's like floods along the Shannon. Lucky it wasn't a bad hailstorm by local standards.

http://uisevereweather.pbworks.com/DesMoines

Hail, when formed, provides massive amounts of damage. In Des Moines, hail typically occurs 3-4 days a year. Damages usually are divided into two categories: agricultural and structural. Since many of the largest hailstorms occur in the Plains and Midwest, agricultural damage is much more common. Hailstorms can damage vehicles, buildings, and the occasional person. Even though agricultural damages are more frequent, their losses per year in the United States are roughly equal, with about 1.5 billion dollars worth of damage a year. (30)



One of the most costly hailstorm events that the United States has even been apart of was the Tri-state hailstorm, which happened to affect Iowa as well. During mid-April of 2001, a supercell thunderstorm developed over Kansas and moved it way east (63). A series of thunderstorms, hail storms and tornadoes developed throughout the Midwest (63). The worst tornado that hit spanned across Kansas City, Missouri to Des Moines (63). The hailstorms produced golf ball to baseball-sized hail that were 2.5 to 7.5 centimeter hailstones (64). The path of the storm ranged from Kansas City to Effingham, Illinois, which is over 350 miles long (not to mention 6-15 miles wide) (64). After the storm, damages were assessed to be just fewer than 2 billion dollars, becoming the ninth most costly weather event in United States history and the costliest event that included hailstorms (64). There were three factors that caused the colossal property damage by the storm: the enormous size of the hailswath, the continuous production of hail by the storm, and the fact that hail fell over Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis (64)

wylo

plenty of vids on youtube with massive hailstones

dylano_k

The Indians have rain dances, he must'v said his hail marys' that morning

AnonoBoy

Michellenman wrote: »

Linkage?

That chap looks pretty beat up. Hail stones are horrible enough when they're normal sized as it is.

I was talking about the UFO story not the hail stone story.

Michellenman

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I was talking about the UFO story not the hail stone story.

Yeah I know I'm looking for a link to the UFO one.

orourkeda

Serves him right for jogging. That wouldnt have happened if he'd sat on his ass drinking beer.