Originally Posted By: ZZman
Originally Posted By: Astro14
Why do you continue to be surprised by this?
What next? "Water ... why is it wet?"
It's Colorado - You get hail in the summer. It happens. You get severe (often fatal) local flooding from the same storm type. It happens.
I live on the Atlantic Coast - we get hurricanes. It happens.
My sister lives in Michigan. It snows in the winter. It happens.
Nick1994 lives in AZ. It gets over 100F in the summer. It happens.
I accept hail but hail that could knock you unconscious and constantly damages property no. It is weird. Living in Michigan we are isolated from most of the extremes you listed.
I can see how extreme hail would shock somebody who isn't used to it. ZZman, you would be surprised how the schools shut down for a week after 6 inches of snow in Virginia, just like Virginians would be surprised at the churches closing when temps hit the 90s in Grand Rapids.
Colorado is a place to have your crop/car/homeowner's insurance paid up for sure. The crazy thing is how unpredictable and localized the storms are--one farmer gets some rain, but the neighbor is hailed flat, done for the year. We know for days when a hurricane is coming, and have a fairly good idea where it will hit.
I was visiting family east of the Front Range last week. We had to pull over on I-70 one afternoon because of hard rain with tiny hail. A mile on, pea-sized hail was drifted 3-4 inches deep on the shoulder. Another night, a family member went home to find the windows knocked out of her house and the siding bashed up, the windshield out of one vehicle and the other looking like ten miles of bad road.
