Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXI

[NaturalRaptor]

75F still, clouds rolling in. Looks like thunderstorms tonight.

~Brian

We have not had a real measurable rain since last summer! We are a spark away from a country side fire.

[LittleBuddha]

75F still, clouds rolling in. Looks like thunderstorms tonight.

~Brian

What the hell is a thunderstorm?   

[NaturalRaptor]

75F still, clouds rolling in. Looks like thunderstorms tonight.

~Brian

What the hell is a thunderstorm?   

My thoughts too! 

[Flynbyu]

Really?

Damn, that's scary.

It's been a week or so since we had any rain.

Thunderstorm you ask?


A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a form of weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its effect: thunder

Here, it's usually a super cell meso-cyclone with 40,000 foot tops producing huge hail stones, high winds, and tornados!

The only bad part about spring here.....err.....winter.....err....summer......well, all the seasons really, but more in the spring than anything.

~Brian

[NaturalRaptor]

I do remember a storm about 2 weeks ago. Not even enough rain to wet the entire ground, but it did drop golf ball sized hail for about 2 minutes. 

[Flynbyu]

Last year we had a hail storm that produced baseball size hail with 100 mph winds. downtown Fort Smith was nothing but glass. Thousands of cars were totalled.

~Brian

[NaturalRaptor]

Brings back bad memories of when I drove my truck into a hail storm with softball sized hail.    The insure fixed the truck and it cost 5K about 8 years ago. I can remember looking in the rear view mirror at the passengers in the back seat and then a huge piece of hail hit right next to my mirror in the windshield and blew little pieces of glass all over us. Scary!

[Flynbyu]

There was hail that was blown through the sides of mobile homes here.

It looked like a war zone in the affected area.

~Brian

[NaturalRaptor]

I remember seeing that on the news, that was terrible.

[exentix]

hey guys

[exentix]

thats an intense storm 

[Flynbyu]

It killed livestock, horses, and damaged thousands of homes.

~Brian

[Krandall]

I MEANT to say... THe biggest hail we've had since I've been around and can remember is just under a golfball. that was intense

[disco]

A few years back I was driving around after a mini hailstorm.  The hail was maybe the size of a piece of corn but there was just millions of the little things on the sides of the road. It looked like foam everywhere. I got pelted by a few pieces.  I don't think anything was actually damaged by it.

Now a buddy of mine is an adjuster and he has seen some stuff. For instance, a car driven by a short woman with "hail damage" everywhere she could reach.  LOL. 

Man, typing this on my phone and it takes forever. Peck, peck, peck.

[Out Back Welding]

i saw, baseball size once just before a tornado...it put inlongated dents in the sides of vehicles,broke windshields,busted shingles off roofs, and pretty much dented anything in its path...