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ca Offline Grant Lamontagne

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Ice storm in Europe
on: July 12, 2024, 04:23:39 PM
I just saw a video from Belgium with a river of ice going down the road.

I am also hearing that Denmark and Sweden are going to be hit next.

I hope all of our members and their loved ones in the path of this storm are all okay!

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Re: Ice storm in Europe
Reply #1 on: July 12, 2024, 04:41:59 PM
I hope their power lines are buried and thus unaffected by wind and snow.
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Re: Ice storm in Europe
Reply #2 on: July 12, 2024, 05:02:58 PM
I'm not sure about our neighbour countries, but over here power lines are rarely buried. But they are also built to take wind and snow. Pretty sure Sweden at least is similar.

We never have the craziest of hail storms either though for some reason. I remember walking in a street in China with a friend many years ago. It started coming down some small ice pebbles instead of rain - normal size at home really. We then observed the streets getting empty and the locals squeezing together into road underpasses, doorways and shops. Being stupid foreigners we thought that was funny behaviour just because of some cute ice pebbles that went "pop" on top of our caps.

Then it all of sudden went from "pop" to "bang" and those cute pebbles were anything but cute - some were the size of my fist and wrecking parked cars. And two stupid foreigners suddenly decided that doing whatever the locals were doing were probably a very wise move!  :D Much to the laughter and cheers from said locals! We might have been from way north, and thought we were used to all things winter, but a hail storm was something we had never seen - scary smurf! 
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Re: Ice storm in Europe
Reply #3 on: July 12, 2024, 07:12:08 PM
I experienced heavy hail when I was around 8 years old and living in Manitoba.  The individual hailstones were bigger than a baseball- I know because my father ran outside to bring a few back in to show us.

It was also extremely loud, as we lived in a house that was sided in aluminum sheet and had aluminum roofs.  Hearing those giant hailstones pound on all that aluminum was deafening.

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Re: Ice storm in Europe
Reply #4 on: July 12, 2024, 07:41:55 PM
Being from Texas, ignorant me forgets than not everyone has nice, shiny (extremely hot) weather.

Hail storms are no joke.  When we lived north of Dallas, we were hit pretty hard by a hail storm with hail about 1.5 inches in diameter.

Not more than 10miles away baseball sized hail fell.  The hail storm was so bad that at least one family lost their house as the hail pierced right through the roof which caused the roof and part of the walls to cave in.  Family was fine, thankfully, but that's a huge loss.
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Ice storm in Europe
Reply #5 on: July 12, 2024, 09:33:37 PM
Hmm. Did not see this in news. I think there was hails in Belgium earlier this week and that turned into heavy thunder when reaching Sweden and eventually Finland. Tuesday, if memory serves and that was relatively heavy thunder down here.
Here’s hoping it is not round two!

On hails in Texas: my Allante comes from Lone Star state and when looked closely the hard top shows hail marks even today. Also the bonnet has one or two dings. Adds character methinks ;)


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Re: Ice storm in Europe
Reply #6 on: July 12, 2024, 10:51:00 PM
I hope everyone is ok.  I just saw a hail storm survivor, a Nissan Altima, that could now be nicknamed Dimples.  I don't think there was an unaffected upper body part on the car. 
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Re: Ice storm in Europe
Reply #7 on: July 12, 2024, 11:19:27 PM
There were couple of strong storms tonight and last night in Czech Republic followed by local floods. However I believe that everyone is ok.
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Re: Ice storm in Europe
Reply #8 on: July 13, 2024, 01:25:59 AM
Sounds like a pretty nasty storm. Hope awl MTo'ers in its path made it out unscathed.
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