Sunday's insane hail storm in Oklahoma City - watch this video

[JBoy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFv2W7Duqiw

Watch the first bit, then skip to about 1/2 way through, when it's coming down like a machine gun.

[neverforget]

1. wow! That's intense!

[mikelgb]

2. shit n/t

[LakeSamish706]

3. Wow, thats insane.... That has to have done damage to the roof one would think. n/t

[KatyaR]

8. You wouldn't believe the damage it did.

That video was taken a little over a mile north of where I live. We had golf-ball sized hail, north of us was at least baseball or grapefruit sized. In the areas that have a lot of trees, it was literally raining hail and leaves to where you couldn't see past it--not big branches, but the leaves and small twigs being stripped from the trees. I've lived in Oklahoma my entire life, and I've never seen anything like this. I was more scared than I've ever been, it sounded like a stampede of angry oxen and an earthquake at the same time--I thought the building I live in was going to collapse.

There are streets where not one house was spared--broken house windows, broken car windows (some people actually had holes knocked into the bodies of their cars as well), roofs destroyed beyond repair, and leaves covering every surface--roofs, cars, driveways, and the streets. People will be waiting to get their property repaired for weeks because of the extent of the damage.

We had flooding several miles north of where the house in the video is, and the hail was so thick that it looked like the ice storm we had in January, and the floodwaters looked like mash potatoes because of all the hail. Here's a photo from that area--realize that all that hail fell in less than 15 minutes, probably less than 10:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. glad I wasn't walking through that crap. wow.

Global Climate Change? naw, cannot be. nope. no evidence.

500 yr floods, 100 yr droughts, dying rivers, huge MoFo hale storms, incredible snow storms, and tornados.

naw.

[The_Commonist]

5. Whoa...

Actually, it might have been kinda fun too see that from underwater.

[rurallib]

6. Proof there is no global warming. It is raining ice in Oklahoma!

:evilgrin:

[Duer 157099]

7. That was beautiful. Add a tripod and it would have even been better

Stunning, just stunning.