Wow, just wow

[suityou01]

Linky

Gütersloh/Bielefeld (brm/-sg-). Land unter am Mittwochabend in Gütersloh: Ein Gewitterregen mit zum Teil taubeneigroßen Hagelkörnern zog über den Kreis Gütersloh, Bielefeld und den Kreis Lippe. Straßen wurden wurden innerhalb kurzer Zeit überflutet, Keller und Tiefgaragen liefen voll Wasser. Die Feuerwehren hatten alle Hände voll zu tun.

Submerged land on Wednesday evening in Gütersloh. A thundershower with pigeon egg sized hailstones over the district of Gütersloh, Bielefeld and Lippe. Streets were shortly flooded, cellars and underground areas were full of water. The fire brigades had their hands full.

Ähnliches berichtet Userin Mary aus Gütersloh-Avenwedde: "Taubeneigroß ist untertrieben, einige Hagelkörner hatten fast Tennisballgröße. Überall Autos verbeult, Autoscheiben kaputt. Dachpfannen und Dachfenster zerbrochen. Wahnsinn!"

Similar reports from Mary in Gütersloh-Avenwedde : "Pigeon egg sized is an understatement, some hailstones were almost tennisball sized. Everywhere there were dented cars, broken car windows, broken roof tiles and broken roof windows, it was madness...

[d000hg]

Who has ever seen a pigeon egg FFS. Why not compare it to something like a golf ball or quail's egg or just measure the bloody things?

[suityou01]

Who has ever seen a pigeon egg FFS. Why not compare it to something like a golf ball or quail's egg or just measure the bloody things?

That's what I thought but apparently small orbs are referenced in terms of pigeon eggs.

Gutersloh is quite, ahem, "rural" though

[Mich the Tester]

Who has ever seen a pigeon egg FFS. Why not compare it to something like a golf ball or quail's egg or just measure the bloody things?

Perhaps there weren't any volunteers to run outside with a ruler.

[DodgyAgent]

I went out on the piss last night with one of the contractors here. We met at his hotel and then toddled in the rain to a bar. It was starting to rain, and there was some thunder and lightening going on.

As we sat in this bar with the doors open looking out on the square, the rain started coming down hard. Then the wind got up. Then what I can only describe as scenes from a Phillipino monsoon took place. It was utterly breathtaking. Then, in 37 degree heat, with hurricane force winds, it started to hail. Not just girly english hail, but proper fully fledged bastard golf ball sized hail.

I remember saying to my colleague, I'm really glad I left my car in the underground carpark at work this evening (normally it's parked on the driveway outside my apartment exposed to the elements). He scoffed saying that hail wouldn't hurt a car.

So I got up this morning, and needed a taxi, so ordered one and waited outside for it to arrive. The landlady was outside talking to her neighbour abour how both their cars were destroyed by hail last night.

Then when I got into work by colleagues were telling me about their neighbours cars that were destroyed by hail.

So my poor little elderly German lady dodged a bullet there.

Maybe my luck has turned

Hi Wilmslow

[suityou01]

Hi Wilmslow

Point taken. Although no mention of irate neighbours hurling pigeon eggs at my house for that ultimate "Wilmslow" effect.

[darmstadt]

What a drive home today, I've never seen a green motorway Started off reasonably nice although a bot overcast but slowly got darker then got light again and you could see it had rained a lot. It suddenly went rather dark but you could see light in the distance so I thought it would pass me by. Like ****, it was like someone dropping a bucket of water on the motorway whilst a big ****off techno disco played in the heavens, and don't mention the power of the gods farts. I had to pull into a service station, along with nearly everyone else and wait awhile and took some photos of large wheelie bins being blown across the car park and trees being uprooted. Eventually continued and the motorway was just covered in tree debris, the hard shoulder was unusable due to the amount of trees and branches on it. A bit further on there was a large tree across the motorway leaving only one lane available. Then the sun came out and it went deeply misty and now its ******* hot and muggy.

[d000hg]

Perhaps there weren't any volunteers to run outside with a ruler.

But they were happy to run outside with a pigeon's egg? Hell, maybe that is what they do for fun in rural Euroland?

[DodgyAgent]

Point taken. Although no mention of irate neighbours hurling pigeon eggs at my house for that ultimate "Wilmslow" effect.

Fair point.. more practice needed suity

[NotAllThere]

Geneva today.

20 minutes - Un violent orage ravage la Suisse romande - Romandie