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16th May 2006 chrishadden

SERIOUS hailstones!

Masrembaud

These enormous hailstones took down our apple tree, put 135 dents in our car, broke windows
and resulted in us having the west side of the house reroofed as they smashed dozens of slates.
Within 15 minutes the sun was shining again!



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Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
1/400s f/14.0 at 55.0mm iso200 hide exif
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Date/Time16-May-2006 13:33:24
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 300D DIGITAL
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length55 mm
Exposure Time1/400 sec
Aperturef/14
ISO Equivalent200
Exposure Bias0.00
White Balance0
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality (8)
Exposure Program0
Focus Distance

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Graeme06-Jun-2021 11:01
I have seen biggish hailstones but none of this size, Chris. So much damage caused! V
Doug Cruden29-May-2021 18:25
Cripes!
Mairéad28-May-2021 20:45
OMG! I've never seen hailstones that big and certainly don't want to after reading your story.
Mieke WA Minkjan26-May-2021 09:06
amazing story Chris, that was really a serious thing to happen
LynnH25-May-2021 22:47
Wow! Glad you weren't injured.
John Vass25-May-2021 04:22
have seen several big hailstone storms and they can be devastating.
Dennis Hoyne25-May-2021 03:56
So big and so evenly round, they did some serious damage.
carol j. phipps25-May-2021 03:48
Whew! That’s horrible! So much damage! It’s goid you documented the size of the hail. So very sorry for the losses. V
larose forest photos25-May-2021 01:16
That is astonishing!! I have never seen hail that size, and from your description of what it did, I hope I never do!! Amazing shot. V
laine24-May-2021 19:38
Only ever had one event ( thankfully ) on that day about 30km away millions of $$$ worth to homes and cars....this was just late last year. Have to say the new roof in masrembaud in 2014 looked amazing :)
Johnny JAG24-May-2021 18:51
Ouch, you wouldn't want to be hit by too many of those!
Walter Otto Koenig24-May-2021 15:17
These are huge. Luckily Hailstorms like this are very rare. I remember one in Munich circa 1979 that damaged hundreds of cars.
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