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Baseball sized hailstones pound Manitoba

No exaggeration needed. Some of the hailstones that hit Manitoba during Friday's storm were baseball sized. Photo by David Sawatzky.
No exaggeration needed. Some of the hailstones that hit Manitoba during Friday's storm were baseball sized. Photo by David Sawatzky.

By Jeff Sanford

Altona, Manitoba — August 31, 2015 — Large hail storms rolled through southeastern and south-central Manitoba this past weekend. The storms left a wake of destruction.

The CBC in that province is reporting that Manitoba Public Insurance received almost 300 hail-related claims over the weekend. The hail involved was particularly large. Pictures posted to the internet show local residents with softball-sized hail in the Beaconia Beach area of the province. Residents in the area described damage to windshields, roofs and gardens. Silver Falls and Matlock also reported baseball-sized hail.

According to the CBC “quarter-sized hail fell in the Teulon, Oakbank, Cooks Creek and Jessica Lake areas. Toonie-sized hailstones hit south Winnipeg.” So there should be lots of work for hail damage experts across the southern part of the province.

 

 

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