Freaky weather

**Shamus_McFartfinger** · January 6, 2006

Check it out. These photos are from a hailstorm that hit my place about 30 minutes ago. I think my roof survived. Not sure as it was raining inside up until about 10 minutes ago. Not the best of photos but check out the size of the hailstones I grabbed from the front yard.

http://users.tpg.com.au/adsldxhe/1.jpg

http://users.tpg.com.au/adsldxhe/2.jpg

**lfcrule1972** · January 6, 2006

Bloody Hell !! I bet they were noisy on the roof too ! Imagine getting hit by one of those..... :faint:

**polopony** · January 6, 2006

did they get the neighbors cat or are you still throwing the PIO 120 at it :lol:

**lfcrule1972** · January 6, 2006

I think sharpened CMC MAG discs fly better.....

**kevdriver** · January 6, 2006

Holy shit shamus, those are huge man,, bloody golf balls mate.............. . We get hail here but never the size of freaking boulders............... :blink: Those could have done some real damage to your house not to mention car if it was outside. Glad nothing of yours got dinged.

Edited January 6, 2006 by kevdriver

**LIGHTNING UK!** · January 6, 2006

What strange things to eat for dinner! Oh and where is your knife young man?!

**Shamus_McFartfinger** · January 6, 2006

Bloody Hell !! I bet they were noisy on the roof too ! Imagine getting hit by one of those.....

Mate, they sounded like small explosions. I suspect my roof will be a little worse for wear when I can check it in the morning. I expect my solar hot water panels to be damaged also. Never seen anything like it.

**Shamus_McFartfinger** · January 6, 2006

did they get the neighbors cat or are you still throwing the PIO 120 at it

Haven't seen the bastard of a thing in a while. I suspect it was flattened by a car a few months back. Tragic.

**Shamus_McFartfinger** · January 6, 2006

Holy shit shamus, those are huge man,, bloody golf balls mate.............. . We get hail here but never the size of freaking boulders............... Those could have done some real damage to your house not to mention car if it was outside. Glad nothing of yours got dinged.

I've never seen hail like it either. We had water dripping inside the house for about 2 hours which had/has me a bit concerned. That's another job for tomorrow: seeing if the water has pooled in the roof anywhere. Lucky Mrs Shamus decided to chuck the car in the garage or it would have been fucked.

**Shamus_McFartfinger** · January 6, 2006

What strange things to eat for dinner! Oh and where is your knife young man?!

We only get bread and water out here in the colonies and only one knife and one fork per household (which Mrs Shamus was using at the time the photograph was taken - hence its non-appearance.

**cornholio7** · January 6, 2006

bloody hell

**lfcrule1972** · January 6, 2006

I know mate its shocking - I am going to send Shamus a couple of spare knives and forks !! :lol:

zacoz · January 6, 2006

did they get the neighbors cat or are you still throwing the PIO 120 at it

Haven't seen the bastard of a thing in a while. I suspect it was flattened by a car a few months back. Tragic.

Hope you washed the evidence off the tyres :whistling:

**polopony** · January 7, 2006

did they get the neighbors cat or are you still throwing the PIO 120 at it

Haven't seen the bastard of a thing in a while. I suspect it was flattened by a car a few months back. Tragic.

Hope you washed the evidence off the tyres

:yes: :thumbup: :cat2: :yes:

**Shamus_McFartfinger** · January 7, 2006

Not that anyone really gives a shit but I've just spent the last hour and a half on my roof doing repairs. My solar hot water panels are intact but I lost a few tiles that I had to replace and others had to be repaired with silicon.

Still, we got off lightly. My neighbours' car was written off. Another neighbour had their garage roof destroyed and then their car inside it as well. Poor bastards.

As I look out my window I can see yet another afternoon storm on its way that'll hit us in a few hours. Round 2 perhaps........

**kevdriver** · January 7, 2006

Good Luck Mate...................... batton down the hatches...................... :unsure: :rain: :pray:

kirk1701™ · January 7, 2006

We got a hail storm like that here in Kentucky back in May or 98. Every car window was broke, everyone had to get new roofs put on and was a total mess. Kenfucky don't know how to deal with shit like that. =))

**lfcrule1972** · January 7, 2006

Hope round 2 wasn't as bad as you thought Shamus ! :luck:

**polopony** · January 7, 2006

I've seen hail like that only once I was in Ireland and the hail came down so hard it killed all the crows

perched in the trees,and the just held on to the branches a strange sight

**lfcrule1972** · January 8, 2006

Sounds like the start of Flash Gordon to me :lol:

**spinningwheel** · January 8, 2006

Round one looked like a bitch, hope round two was easier on you Shamus.

**Shamus_McFartfinger** · January 8, 2006

Round 2 was a non-event. The next few days are looking a bit dodgy though.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/busi...om=search_10day

*sigh*

On a brighter note: I'm going to make an effort to get my old Amiga 4000/40 running while I'm on holidays. It'll be interesting to see if I can remember how to drive it.

**dbminter** · January 8, 2006

Are you people sure it's wise to be sending cutlery to Shamus? :lol:

**lfcrule1972** · January 9, 2006

Its ok db I was going to send him the child safe cutlery that our youngest has grown out of !

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