15 mins heavy hailstorm ...

walter :
it seems to me that germany - and probably the rest of europe - has had to deal with unusually severe weather lately .
i usually take a look at www.wetter.com once a day to see if it's raining in lippstadt !
i particularly like to take a look at the many webcameras displayed for most cities .
speaking of hail , we used to have some hailstorms in eastern ontario when we first moved here , also heavy thunderstorms that would shake the house were not unusual .
for the last several years we have not had any hail at all - and i don't want any !!! - , also thunderstorms have become much less severe , even though only 100 kilometers north or west there may be rather bad and damaging weather - sure hope it stays that way .
but i guess i forgot the icestorm we had in the winter of 1998 .
it brought down electrical powerlines and transmission towers , and pretty well brought much of eastern canada and the united states to a standstill - kingston was just on the edge and we didn't have any power for a week .
how quickly one forgets !
hbg



about a week after the icestorm hit , we took a drive through the countryside and the devastion was quite extensive .
i took quite a few pictures at that time - sure looked beautiful driving along country roads and seeing miles-upon-miles of ice and snow covered trees .

Well, at the least (best) there you are with your lab!
Best of luck

We're praying for hail just like that. And soon. We need a new roof, and the insurance would pay for it.

Wow, those hailstones look like they could be used as golf balls!

There's a lot of freekish weather about these days.

Once upon a time, in the '50s and '60s, we could of blamed it on the Russians, but those times are long past.

My grandmother always blamed the radio antennas in the garden, later the h-bombs for that ...