A terrible hail storm and flooding rain has hit Canberra! Like in Melbourne hail stones the size of golf balls, and winds of over 100km.hr have wreaked havoc on cars and houses, causing millions of dollars in damage!

Fr Jose,you said you fundos prayed to your god for rain, can you fundos stop praying! PLEASE!

"Vote Green, Vote Extreme!" Good on ya Issy, that's right, its time for action, extreme climate change requires extreme action, cast off those good for nothing LNP people, and vote for solid action from the Greens.

BTW, with the destruction of a billion creatures due to bushfires, are the Shooter and Hooters going to cancel this years 'Fury Friends Shoot' or not? There is hardly a koala or wombat to be found! Plan B can be the usual targets, road signs, sheep, insos on power polls, etc etc. Agree Issy?

Do you ever research anything before shooting off at the keyboard Paul?

Ipswich Primary 1943, yes during WW11 had many of it's windows smashed by hail of cricket ball size, & larger hail. Hail is pretty common, or didn't you know. That one was probably a Jap plot, but they didn't have SUVs back then.

You people talk such incredible garbage, it is a wonder you survive without a nursemaid.

Exaggerated claims like "hail of cricket ball size, & larger" without providing meteorological evidence are often made by people trying to big note themselves. I bet you were the one making that claim Hassy.

Hassy, the cricket ball size hail 1943, provide evidence. Hearsay from some old newspaper report would not constitute evidence, nor would the hearsay of some 85 year old bloke from down the road.

What a dumb down statement; "Do you (paul1405) ever research anything" I'm reporting from today news events, what is there to research, the worlds largest hailstone ever recorded was 20cm in diameter USA 2010. Pity a large hail stone don't drop on you head Hassy and knock some sense into it.

Paul,

Cricket balls are less than 20cm in diameter.

Back in late January, 1991, Adelaide had a hail-storm with cricket-ball-size hail-stones; I collected a bucket of them, but they were each too big to fit into a wine-glass. I think we've had a couple of hail-storms since with large stones, but not that big.

Joe

Not hearsay Paul, I was there. They kept us in school for an hour as it was too dangerous to go out in it.

The hail was still on the ground the next morning, it was so thick.

In Toogoom, Hervey Bay in 1990 we had hail the size of soft balls, mostly made up of 8 or 9 mm hail stones combined into a single lump.

It cost me a couple of hundred dollars in vets bills for injured horses, but 2 neighbors lost a horse each killed by the big ones.

My Toyota Camry cost my insurance company $4500 to repair the damage, from about 5 minutes of the stuff. Panel beaters were booked out for weeks.

You do appear to have led a very sheltered life, if you haven't heard of these events.

Paul if you read the scriptures you would know that in Joshua's day [Joshua 10]there was a hailstorm as big as stones that killed thousands of enemy soldiers. It is reported God fought for Israel and their friends at Gibeon by sending hailstones.

In 1946 when I was living near Bellingen on NSW North Coast we had a hailstorm that covered the fences and the ice lasted for days.

In 1873 there were 246 persons in India killed by hail.
http://wmo.asu.edu/content/world-highest-mortality-hailstorm


In Genesis 1: 7 it mentions a firmament of water above the Earth, believed to be about seven miles above the Earth as ice, caused by green house gasses creating a Jurassic hot house environment. Ice falling to earth or great dust storms is not caused by coal fired power stations.