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Severe hailstorm in Australia.
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That size of hail can definitely kill someone! 😰
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Yeah, I imagine areas without much cover would be littered with dead animals.
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You mean free food!
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And tenderized!
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Well everything else tries to kill you in Australia so why not the sky too?
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I definitely saw softball sized hail like that growing up in Oklahoma. I remember dad running out to grab 2 of them after it stopped and he put them in the freezer.
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In India, there is a lake with hundred+ dead bodies. The theory behind it was a hail storm and people went into the lake to take shelter.
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that’s a stupid theory. Why would you seek shelter in/on a lake, with literally nothing above your head?
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Its a high mountain lake. No trees, no cover. Here is a documentary about it https://youtu.be/yYBPdL8cjfo?si=rZLv17BMUywd6Nbt
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You get in the US too!
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And each hailstone is carrying a poisonous spider.
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Just don’t eat it then and you’ll be fine.
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Try to catch an Australian hailstone in your mouth, I dare you!
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Long as y’all don’t say snake, I think I’ll be alright 🫣
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I wonder if Australian hail taste any different than hail that lands in Tennessee
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It tastes like blood and crushed skull.
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Somehow it’s venomous
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And a shark
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And a venomous snake
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And a venomous fish
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And my axe
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There are two common varieties of hailstone in Australia. The other contains a salt water crocodile and a drop bear.
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*Grape sized hail* “How can this even get worse” *That*
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Our weather people use terms like that to describe hail. If I ever hear “hail the size of elephants” I will know that we are well and truly fucked.
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“Hail the size of canned hams.”
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You just sent me back in time. When I was a kid and I was sick, I would stay up and watch Letterman with my dad and there was a period of time where Letterman mentioned canned hams all the time, dropped them off buildings, handed them out to people in the audience. I cannot hear the words “canned ham” without remembering being throw up sick as a kid.
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Hold my beer mate.
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We get hailstones 15 centimetres in diameter here in Australia. Grape sized ones are tiny
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what is 15 cm in terms an american might understand? baseball? cherry? grapefruit? cantaloupe? large watermelon? small watermelon? dont you dare use inches, all of the guys reading will think its bigger than it actually is.
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It’s about 7 freedoms per eagle
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Even the Australian *sky* is out to kill you…
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We get this in Texas too. We also get new roofs about every year.
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Get colourbond roofing like we have here in Australia
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Some people do! Not necessarily that product, but often people do give up and put a metal roof on.
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Most houses here in Australia have a metal sheet roof. Most common after that would be a tile roof.
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Not all of Australia, I would say tile is by far more common around here (Canberra), the only places I know that are predominantly colourbond are south coast areas with no town water.
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Yeah depends on location and average age of the house. Alot of old houses up here in QLD so the majority have metal roofing. In modern housing estates tile roofs are alot more common
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We get grape hail a lot, but softball hail? That’s a damn rare thing even down here
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I had 60mph baseball sized hail blow my windows out this year. Not sure where you live.
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Damn. I live in E Texas, and we’ve gotten some wild hail, but I can’t remember anything like that. I think a little over golf ball is all I can recall
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Biggest hailstone I have seen is 15 cm wide. Well, I didnt see it, my grandma saw the hole it ripped in a steel teapot she was holding above her head for protection… Biggest hailstone I have seen was 11cm, crystal clear, and spiky as fuck. It buried itself about 4cm into compacted dirt, must have hit at about 200km/h
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>my grandma saw the hole it ripped in a steel teapot she was holding above her head for protection Jesus I’ve never measured, I only do comparison. Somewhere between golf ball and lacrosse ball is what I’ve seen. Tbh tho, I hear it’s hailing, I lock myself inside, so I coulda missed some big ones
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fences were always getting busted bigtime back when my mother lived in Dallas.
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That’s every day. The UV levels results in the highest cancer rates in the world. Luckily we have a lot of screening and we catch most early!
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Where I am I regularly see UV indexes of 11-12 in the summer. Luckily, we have a very low cancer rate. (because it’s so expensive to go to the doctor to find out.)
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The Australian sky is always trying to kill you. Have you not heard of skin cancer?
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Oh I have, I just don’t think about it that much because I grew up in and live in areas with UV indexes of 11-12 regularly, so I’m well accustomed to just avoiding the sun or using copious amounts of sunscreen if I have to go out into it.
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When was it?
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I can’t speak to this one but I had one similar to this in Canberra at the end of 2023. It shattered several roof tiles and a skylight and the tube partially filled up with hail, which ruptured and then spilled into the roof cavity. The wind was blowing most of it sideways fortunately and we had steel roller shutters which were ruined but the windows were saved. Only just getting back to living a normal life, and I’m worried it’ll happen again as extreme weather is just getting more and more common.
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