Monday, July 19, 2010

Insane hail storm in Calgary

Thunder storms are quite common for Calgary at this time of year but the storm we got earlier in the week was something truly incredible. We had golf ball sized hail for about 10 min and while a lot of the city got missed the University copped a beating. Walking home that evening a saw a number of cars that had their windows smashed but thankfully our Saabaru was safe under ground.


This movie was taken just outside the Chemistry building (video from Karl Dawson).

I also recommend checking out this video which shows the Botany Departments glass house being destroyed.

1 comment:

AGL said...

Crazy stuff!! Pretty lucky that you had the car under a roof. Gemma told that in Perth people are still queuing at the panel beaters - they believe it will take 2 years before they are back to normal .. so try to keep the Saab out of trouble ;-)

Cheers Allan