Toulouse, France battered by hailstorm - holes in car bodies

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng



Severe hailstorm crashed down onto Toulouse onto one awaking to a Friday. In the city of South France belonging to the Mediterranean area the roads, streets, parks pieces of ice, between which they were with 10 centimetre diameters in his mass, covered it everywhere. The ice storm caused big damages, more than the firemen marched out onto 300 sites. Many cars were damaged: the huge pieces of ice hit holes onto the bodywork. Nobody was wounded according to the French city's authorities, for which presumably the reason of his that a night fell the hail. From among the Toulouse underground stations more were closed.)
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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Is it the Apocalypse yet?

* is bringing on "the End Times" with his antipathy toward global warming.

[BrotherBuzz]

2. hit holes onto the bodywork - not holes in car bodies

Looks like a bad babel translation. I'm still trying to decipher "for which presumably the reason of his that a night fell the hail".

[ensho]

3. come now, you know what the translater meant

nt

[BrotherBuzz]

6. No, the subject line was deceptive

Which may have been yours, I don't know. On the other hand hisz.rsoe is odd in that there is little filtering of its reporting. They post erroneous reports as well as valid ones. Just last year, someone on DU linked to that site about a story of flooding in California. It read like there was widespread damage when in reality, the flooding was localized to a new development with inadequate drainage. What's more, the development didn't actually experience any damage as the water only approached flood stage.

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant, an elephant is faithful one hundred percent.

[rurallib]

4. seems like every day brings a new weather phenomena

someplace in the world.

[Warpy]

5. Here's some amateur footage

It looks like a real mess. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8djZNkWlPc

[ensho]

9. wow - a river of hail going down the street

nt

[Perry Logan]

7. I just lost every window on the west side of my house to hail!

We had a big one here in Austin the other day. It sent glass flying all the way across the bedroom!

[ensho]

8. good grief! must have made a hell of a noise and mess

and expense!

[francetales.com]

10. This is one of the only places I have seen this story

I live in Toulouse and was shocked to find myself in a hailstorm that accumulated like snow. It almost never snows here even in winter so on May 15th, that made it even stranger. I wrote a story about it here. I also have links from there to a slideshow. You can see it is almost 8 inches of "hail" that fell. It was quite bizarre. I guess it pales in comparison to Myanmar and China in terms of weather catastrophes but it was very bizarre nonetheless.