{"id":1248,"date":"2010-07-13T19:37:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T01:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2010-07-18T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T17:42:39","slug":"one-hail-of-a-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"One hail of a storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bitch about the weather a lot, but sometimes the weather in Calgary can be damn exciting.\u00a0 As long as you don’t suffer hail damage.\u00a0 That sucks.<\/p>\n

But today around the middle of the day there was an INTENSE hail storm around here.\u00a0 My mother says it was the biggest hail she’s ever seen.\u00a0 It was golf ball size.\u00a0 I looked at the sky as the storm was roiling and boiling, and it looked something like this:<\/p>\n

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\nAnd when the rain started, it went from a few very big drops to “raining sideways in sheets” very fast.\u00a0 I’ve seen the rain start that explosively before – literally in seconds from nothing to full-on monsoon.<\/p>\n

And on the way home, there were chopped and sliced up leaves everywhere.\u00a0 Calgary and the surrounding area get some of the worst hailstorms in the world.\u00a0 They aren’t THE worst, but we have by far the highest dollar value in damage claims from hail.\u00a0 Go us!<\/p>\n

Well, I’m waiting for one of my lady friends on NiteFlirt to come back online.\u00a0 Then we will chat all about how she is a robot and how she is programmed to obey my commands.<\/p>\n

Ah, the pleasures I afford myself.\u00a0 Giggity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bitch about the weather a lot, but sometimes the weather in Calgary can be damn exciting.\u00a0 As long as you don’t suffer hail damage.\u00a0 That sucks. But today around the middle of the day there was an INTENSE hail storm around here.\u00a0 My mother says it was the biggest hail she’s ever seen.\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[360,326],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-hailstorms","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}