Families flee river of ice after freak storm hits town

The bizarre fall weather has continued in the UK, with a freak ice storm hitting the British town of Devon."Dozens of people, including a mother in labour, had to be rescued after a freak hailstorm left a Devon town cut off by floodwater.More than a foot of hail fell on...

England Hailstorm sparks havoc

Parts of East Devon and Cornwall in the UK have been hit by a series of floods after a night of storms, with severe rain and heavy hail. Fire officials described the situation as chaos. About 25 people had to be rescued from their homes, and an evacuation centre had to be set...

Hailstorm triggers cluster bomb blasts

"A hailstorm has caused hundreds of cluster bombs to explode in south Lebanon. The cluster bombs were dropped by Israel during its war with Hezbollah guerrillas last year. The hailstones, as big as walnuts, fell...

VIDEO: 'Giant' hail Pummels New South Wales

"SYDNEY - HAIL the size of tennis balls lashed an eastern coast city in Australia on Tuesday, reportedly smashing windows and damaging cars and buildings, as a severe storm swept through."

Madge says the hailstones busted the doghouse roof

My friend Madge was back home in Minn. visiting her parents when a June hailstorm hit. I then went onto the Google thing and it's very good to find other news, if you have not done this go to the Google website...

NASA - Delaying Shuttle Launch Till June 8

"Following the damage on the insulating foam on the external fuel tank damage during a freak hailstorm in February that left over 2600 divots, NASA will delay the launch of space shuttle Atlantis at least until June 8 so that its hail-damaged fuel tank can be repaired. Some...

"Afternoon of Terror"

I had seen photographs of this Hail storm, which hit Argentina, and it looked pretty bad. So, I took a look around and found little in the way of postable news. However, I ran into a blog post from a Greek...

Plum-sized hailstones wreak havoc in Buenos Aires

Watch a video here "An unusually long hailstorm hit Buenos Aires City with full force yesterday, battering the city with hailstones as big as plums that injured 14 people and caused traffic havoc. Numerous...

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