Udon Thani officials inspect storm damage after lemon-sized hailstones hit 700 homes

By Seksanti Kalayanawisut 
The Nation

 

 

Udon Thani provincial authorities on Tuesday inspected around 700 homes in Mueang, Phen, Ban Phue, Si That and Kumphawapi districts that were damaged in a hailstorm on Monday night.

 

At Tambon Nikhom Songkhro in Mueang district, Udon Thani deputy governor Pramote Thanyapheud led officials to aid affected residents – two of whom had suffered slight injuries from lemon-sized hailstones – and inspect property damage.

 

Most of the damaged properties had punctured roofs and/or fallen trees, with some areas experiencing blown-away advertising billboards, traffic signs and election posters.

 

Ban Nong Lak resident Monreudee Phasing, 35, recalled that there had been heavy rain at 10pm on Monday, followed by gusty winds and a 10-minute hailstorm. 

 

“Some of the hailstones were as big as a lemon and they punctured my roof. The subsequent blackout left us in the dark, soaked by rain inside our own home,” she said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30364804

 

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I didn't know it hailed in Thailand.   That's some serious size hail.  Where are the car pictures,?

technically it isnt supposed to hail here i always thought but many years ago in a boat in some lake somewhere it did!. Not a person abroad has believed me that it ever happened. Whos crazy now!!!!

Is that 'lemon' as in western 'lemon' or is that 'lemon' as in Thai 'lemon' , which is really a 'lime' ?  Either one is impressive as a size comparison but my limes are the size of a lemon,  in europe or America. Brexit may change that comparison, I don't know yet.

The more common comparison that I have always heard is “hail the size of golf balls”. A better description because golf balls are a standard size. 

We got the same storm, some of the hail was the size of a golf ball, so the size of a "lime" certainly not a "Lemon! the majority much smaller, still cleaning up after the mess it caused