haha that reminds me of my second day of training my first year working at a summer camp!
A tornado went over camp and there were huge hail balls the size of softballs, people’s cars got pummeled lots of broken windows, toppled trees the whole bit. It was a super crazy experience for me because I was one lake over from main camp when I saw the storm rushing towards me across the lake; I had my bike so I raced it back to camp and got under a roof overhang.
We were told by the director to get to the basement of the camp cabin so we ran there, on the way I got a good knock on the head and my buddy got hit in the shoulder and broke his collar bone :(. 10 min later it was all clear and calm.
It was one of the craziest storms I have ever been in.
Oh and just south of camp a 500m section of ash fault got ripped off the highway and thrown into the bush
The truck belonged to a storm chasing business (you can see part of the name on the side of the truck). Somehow I doubt there is an insurance company that would insure a storm chasing car for storm related damage.
For a storm chasing tour, a hail damaged truck might actually be good for attracting business. The body damage would make it obvious that they know how to find storms.
I wonder how they measured hail before the advent of sport balls like golf, tennis, and baseball.
“Look Martha, that hail’s the size of that boil you lanced last winter!” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Edit, just wondering…
Sorry, stupid spell check
Asphalt
And it was a truely impressive storm
Makes sense now. That word creates more confusion: Did you hear about the blonde who though that asphalt was a communicable disease?
wow, sombody must have died in that?
Nar, nobody died that i know of, It was in Northern Saskatchewan which doesn’t have many people, the nearest town to camp is about 80km away so the tornado didn’t hit any residential type areas, a logging camp got destroyed but there was no-body there at the time and a semi got pushed off the road between Candle Lake and the 106 junction. the driver had to go to the hospital but Im sure he was alright. it was mid-may so there was still snow on the ground and ice on the lakes so people weren’t out camping much yet.
I think that Desmond (the friend who broke his color bone) and that semi-driver were the only people really injured in the storm. I heard roomers that some guy got caught in the hail at Lower Fishing Lake and broke some fingers holding a chunk of plywood over himself but I don’t think that that was true.
If it was summer instead of spring then the chance of people dieing from a storm like that would have been way higher.
Please tell.