yeah so the other day i guess a tornado touched down and wrecked shit. Jame's car was seriously destroyed. The windsheild is fucking smashed in like 10 places and the rest of his car has giant dents.. like hundreds of them that are huge. I can't imagine how it wouldh ave been if a person got hit in the head with one of the pieces of hail. It was seriously fucked up. Whats up global warming. Life rules.
Hail hammers Seacoast towns
By STAFF AND CORRESPONDENT REPORTS
Wednesday, Jul. 12, 2006
High-speed storms pummeled southeastern New Hampshire yesterday, unloading golf ball-sized hail onto cars and rooftops and knocking out power to hundreds of homes and businesses.
In 21 years Ive been here, this is the worst storm Ive ever seen. Ive never seen hail that big in my life, said Exeter Lt. Steve Dockery. Five police cruisers were heavily damaged in the storm.
Hail dented close to 275 cars parked outside Exeter Hospital, breaking windshields and sunroofs.
It looked like a ball-peen hammer went over my car, said Ron Goodspeed, the hospitals director of community relations. The hospital lost power several times during the course of the day and had to operate on a backup generator.
Employees at Foss Motors, too, watched as hail fell on more than 100 cars on their lot. Damages to the business inventory there are expected to exceed $1 million, a representative said.
Also in Exeter, the roof at a Walgreen store collapsed from heavy rain.
I saw it coming first before I heard it, said Matt Fitzgerald, store manager. The customers were safe; the employees were safe. Were thankful for that.
Officials in Exeter had been expecting about a tenth of an inch of rain yesterday morning, Town Manager Russell Dean said. More than 4 inches fell by days end.
Mother nature is a powerful force, and it will continue to be unpredictable, Dean said.
Nine hundred homes and businesses across southern New Hampshire, mostly on the Seacoast, were without power yesterday afternoon, according to a Public Service of New Hampshire spokesman.
Outages continued throughout the day. The largest cluster was in Hampstead, where 400 customers waited for utility crews to replace a large transformer, the spokeswoman said. She expected power to return by 1 a.m. today.
The storm also damaged glass at the historic Gilman Garrison House, built as a fortified house in the early 1700s to protect sawmills and waterpower sites.
Lightning strikes terrorized a number of neighborhoods and sent several people to the hospital. In East Hampstead, a Difeo Oil and Propane employee was hurt while working on a boiler in a basement, police said. Authorities believe the boiler conducted electricity from the lightning strike.
Though he suffered no major injuries, the man experienced tingling in his feet and was laying on the floor when police officers arrived at the scene, police said.
Meanwhile, children at a YMCA day camp in Kingston got a scare when lightning struck a tall pine tree. Again, no one was hit, but some campers who were inside a cabin about 50 feet away complained of numbness in their arms, toes and legs. Nine campers, all between the ages of 7 and 12, were taken to area hospitals as a precaution.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for eastern Rockingham County shortly before 12:30 p.m., saying a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was passing through Exeter and headed toward Hampton, Greenland and Rye within minutes.
Historic homes etched windows are shattered
Lightning-sparked fires cause major damage
AP Video: Massachusetts cleans up after the storms
Meteorologist Butch Roberts at the weather office in Gray, Maine, said the radar indicated a tornado was rotating high in the storm clouds. No sightings of a funnel cloud were reported.
The radar indicated a tornado. There was rotation, he said.
By 1 p.m., the storms had moved out to sea, but the weather service was tracking more of them. A severe thunderstorm watch for Cheshire and Hillsborough counties was in effect until 8 p.m.
Police in Exeter received more than 900 calls during the hail storms brief reign, which lasted about an hour and overwhelmed Exeters two dispatchers, the town manager said.
Roads throughout town also flooded as drains struggled to keep up with the rain. Several cars stalled as they tried to ford Water Street near downtown heading toward Route 101.
Ketti Davis-Vanasse of Portsmouth parked her red Honda in a Route 127 municipal lot on her way to school headquarters. When she returned, she found the cars body was dented and its rear windshield had been smashed.
I thought (the storm) was pretty cool until I got outside, and now everything is covered in glass, she said.
Gov. John Lynch surveyed damage late yesterday afternoon. He credited local officials for helping prevent injuries and deaths and promised aid.
I know the state will help in anyway we can, he said.
In Rye, the lights went out at the Seacoast Science Center just as dark storm clouds moved in. As a precaution, workers moved about 75 day campers away from windowed areas to an interior room.
The worst was probably about 12:35 is when it got really, really dark and we had a little power outage, said science center President Wendy Lull. The rain is pretty much coming straight down, but in torrents.
Lightning was the suspected cause of fires in Northwood, Wilmot, Kensington and Sutton. In some spots, trees fell onto homes and power lines.
As the storm swept eastward, hail and strong winds halted traffic on Interstate 95 near the Hampton tolls.
At Hampton Beach, about 2,000 beachgoers sought shelter from rain, but not hail, in the Hampton Beach Casino or in shops that line the oceanside boulevard.
Amy Bassett, of the state Division of Parks and Recreation, said a lifeguard on an ATV evacuated Hampton Beach before the storm hit.
He said when the storm came, there wasnt a soul on the beach, Bassett said.
Bassett said Rye Harbor State Park, where the divisions regional office is located, took a worse beating than Hampton Beach. She said parks workers in Rye reported heavy thunder and lightning, rain and three-quarter-inch hail.
Nancy Eddy of Dover looks at her windshield with her daughter Kelly Holt as both mother and daughter bring their cars to B&M Glass in Exeter after hail damaged the windshields and also extensively dented each car during the heavy rain and hail yesterday. (THOMAS ROY)
In Rye, the lights went out at the Seacoast Science Center just as dark storm clouds moved in. As a precaution, workers moved about 75 day campers away from windowed areas to an interior room.
The worst was probably about 12:35 is when it got really, really dark and we had a little power outage, said science center President Wendy Lull. The rain is pretty much coming straight down, but in torrents.
Lightning was the suspected cause of fires in Northwood, Wilmot, Kensington and Sutton. In some spots, trees fell
The Atlantic Queen II's midday cruise was cancelled when the hailstorm hit Rye Harbor and its fishing boats. (JENN GOSSELIN)
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Hail hammers Seacoast towns
By STAFF AND CORRESPONDENT REPORTS
Wednesday, Jul. 12, 2006
High-speed storms pummeled southeastern New Hampshire yesterday, unloading golf ball-sized hail onto cars and rooftops and knocking out power to hundreds of homes and businesses.
In 21 years Ive been here, this is the worst storm Ive ever seen. Ive never seen hail that big in my life, said Exeter Lt. Steve Dockery. Five police cruisers were heavily damaged in the storm.
Hail dented close to 275 cars parked outside Exeter Hospital, breaking windshields and sunroofs.
It looked like a ball-peen hammer went over my car, said Ron Goodspeed, the hospitals director of community relations. The hospital lost power several times during the course of the day and had to operate on a backup generator.
Employees at Foss Motors, too, watched as hail fell on more than 100 cars on their lot. Damages to the business inventory there are expected to exceed $1 million, a representative said.
Also in Exeter, the roof at a Walgreen store collapsed from heavy rain.
I saw it coming first before I heard it, said Matt Fitzgerald, store manager. The customers were safe; the employees were safe. Were thankful for that.
Officials in Exeter had been expecting about a tenth of an inch of rain yesterday morning, Town Manager Russell Dean said. More than 4 inches fell by days end.
Mother nature is a powerful force, and it will continue to be unpredictable, Dean said.
Nine hundred homes and businesses across southern New Hampshire, mostly on the Seacoast, were without power yesterday afternoon, according to a Public Service of New Hampshire spokesman.
Outages continued throughout the day. The largest cluster was in Hampstead, where 400 customers waited for utility crews to replace a large transformer, the spokeswoman said. She expected power to return by 1 a.m. today.
The storm also damaged glass at the historic Gilman Garrison House, built as a fortified house in the early 1700s to protect sawmills and waterpower sites.
Lightning strikes terrorized a number of neighborhoods and sent several people to the hospital. In East Hampstead, a Difeo Oil and Propane employee was hurt while working on a boiler in a basement, police said. Authorities believe the boiler conducted electricity from the lightning strike.
Though he suffered no major injuries, the man experienced tingling in his feet and was laying on the floor when police officers arrived at the scene, police said.
Meanwhile, children at a YMCA day camp in Kingston got a scare when lightning struck a tall pine tree. Again, no one was hit, but some campers who were inside a cabin about 50 feet away complained of numbness in their arms, toes and legs. Nine campers, all between the ages of 7 and 12, were taken to area hospitals as a precaution.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for eastern Rockingham County shortly before 12:30 p.m., saying a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was passing through Exeter and headed toward Hampton, Greenland and Rye within minutes.
Historic homes etched windows are shattered
Lightning-sparked fires cause major damage
AP Video: Massachusetts cleans up after the storms
Meteorologist Butch Roberts at the weather office in Gray, Maine, said the radar indicated a tornado was rotating high in the storm clouds. No sightings of a funnel cloud were reported.
The radar indicated a tornado. There was rotation, he said.
By 1 p.m., the storms had moved out to sea, but the weather service was tracking more of them. A severe thunderstorm watch for Cheshire and Hillsborough counties was in effect until 8 p.m.
Police in Exeter received more than 900 calls during the hail storms brief reign, which lasted about an hour and overwhelmed Exeters two dispatchers, the town manager said.
Roads throughout town also flooded as drains struggled to keep up with the rain. Several cars stalled as they tried to ford Water Street near downtown heading toward Route 101.
Ketti Davis-Vanasse of Portsmouth parked her red Honda in a Route 127 municipal lot on her way to school headquarters. When she returned, she found the cars body was dented and its rear windshield had been smashed.
I thought (the storm) was pretty cool until I got outside, and now everything is covered in glass, she said.
Gov. John Lynch surveyed damage late yesterday afternoon. He credited local officials for helping prevent injuries and deaths and promised aid.
I know the state will help in anyway we can, he said.
In Rye, the lights went out at the Seacoast Science Center just as dark storm clouds moved in. As a precaution, workers moved about 75 day campers away from windowed areas to an interior room.
The worst was probably about 12:35 is when it got really, really dark and we had a little power outage, said science center President Wendy Lull. The rain is pretty much coming straight down, but in torrents.
Lightning was the suspected cause of fires in Northwood, Wilmot, Kensington and Sutton. In some spots, trees fell onto homes and power lines.
As the storm swept eastward, hail and strong winds halted traffic on Interstate 95 near the Hampton tolls.
At Hampton Beach, about 2,000 beachgoers sought shelter from rain, but not hail, in the Hampton Beach Casino or in shops that line the oceanside boulevard.
Amy Bassett, of the state Division of Parks and Recreation, said a lifeguard on an ATV evacuated Hampton Beach before the storm hit.
He said when the storm came, there wasnt a soul on the beach, Bassett said.
Bassett said Rye Harbor State Park, where the divisions regional office is located, took a worse beating than Hampton Beach. She said parks workers in Rye reported heavy thunder and lightning, rain and three-quarter-inch hail.
Nancy Eddy of Dover looks at her windshield with her daughter Kelly Holt as both mother and daughter bring their cars to B&M Glass in Exeter after hail damaged the windshields and also extensively dented each car during the heavy rain and hail yesterday. (THOMAS ROY)
In Rye, the lights went out at the Seacoast Science Center just as dark storm clouds moved in. As a precaution, workers moved about 75 day campers away from windowed areas to an interior room.
The worst was probably about 12:35 is when it got really, really dark and we had a little power outage, said science center President Wendy Lull. The rain is pretty much coming straight down, but in torrents.
Lightning was the suspected cause of fires in Northwood, Wilmot, Kensington and Sutton. In some spots, trees fell
The Atlantic Queen II's midday cruise was cancelled when the hailstorm hit Rye Harbor and its fishing boats. (JENN GOSSELIN)
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