Hail Season, or as the Locals Call it, Stampede Week

[jamesq]

We just had a wrath-of-god prairie hailstorm blow across the work place (I work in Research Park, just north of the University). This makes me glad I work indoors and the car is in the garage.

I don't think this one was powerful enough to wreck my roof shingles (which happened to my folks 19 years ago) - the hail was only golf-ball sized and the duration was only ten minutes. Still, you wouldn't want to be caught in it.

A survey of the parking lot at work revealed nearly every car's roof was now dimpled with hail stone impacts, but all the windshields seem to have survived intact. At least one car alarm was triggered.

(Crossposted to calgarians)

Comments

[jamesq]

The building where I work is next door to AITF.

[snooness2]

I sort of figured that might be the case. The info I got about the storm was from our communications person. It sounds like it was really bad out there.