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Short hailstorm, about twenty minutes, Friday July 28 (Original Post) Ptah Jul 2023 OP
!!! Kali Jul 2023 #1
15 minutes of weather, once a week. Ptah Jul 2023 #4
that ain't normal - did you have 70mph winds as well? -(nt)- stopdiggin Jul 2023 #2
The wind was fierce. The marble-sized hail was painful. Ptah Jul 2023 #3
partly it is because that is not a masonry chimney Kali Jul 2023 #5
yep. that's the equivalent of a Christmas stopdiggin Jul 2023 #6
It's a stucco duplex, circa 1990 I think. Ptah Jul 2023 #7
what a beast Kali Jul 2023 #8

Kali

(56,898 posts)
5. partly it is because that is not a masonry chimney
Sun Jul 30, 2023, 12:06 PM
Jul 2023

it is just metal tubing inside a stucco box. but still, that is a shocking failure. I wonder if the "securely attached" antenna helped catch the wind < masonry chimney, likely to stand after entire building is gone.

stopdiggin

(15,639 posts)
6. yep. that's the equivalent of a Christmas
Sun Jul 30, 2023, 12:16 PM
Jul 2023

decoration - stuck up on the roof with a staple gun.

(exaggerating for effect - and hopefully humor .. )

Ptah

(34,159 posts)
7. It's a stucco duplex, circa 1990 I think.
Sun Jul 30, 2023, 12:19 PM
Jul 2023

The mesquite is on my side of the block wall.

The century-old saguaro is still standing.



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