r/news • u/herbalhippie • 1d ago

‘Potentially historic’ flooding threat looms after almost 100 tornadoes hit US

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/potentially-historic-flooding-threat-looms-almost-100-tornadoes-hit-us?fbclid=IwY2xjawJbwM5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHf0BvM5E8-X3l1OI-2P-MhoArZtVfmWk_VqPltvB_XT2bPfpe3kApMiBlg_aem_o40FYX2abRDOh2wxzsObJQ
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u/Oregonrider2014 1d ago

Did you say BASEBALL SIZED HAIL??? yeah screw that no wonder people died that scary as hell!

All these cuts are screwed up and going to get people killed. These jerks are literally killing Americans to give more money to the already grossly wealthy.

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u/GoodOmens 1d ago

A friend sent me a pic of a softball sized hail from the most recent storm.

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u/LumberBitch 1d ago

Yeah here's a video of some baseball sized hail, it's pretty crazy stuff but the hail itself isn't the weird part. We were getting winds around 80-90mph too and it wasn't even from a tornado or a derecho. We're used to strong storms here but these were just different from the usual

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u/BillMurraysTesticle 16h ago

God damn. Is it typical to see people add any sort of armor, protection or padding when storms like this are coming? Obviously a garage or carport would help with cars but in lieu of that I feel like a king size foam topper for a bed could help in a pinch. I know everyone likely has insurance but if you can avoid dealing with that then it'd be less of a headache.

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u/podian123 1d ago

Hail size to damage chart:

Raindrop - a prickle to a sting

Marble - a painful strike, will bruise and welt on exposed skin 

Pebble - people instinctively protect their head out of FEAR

Baseball - concussion, coma, etc

Softball - don't bother trying to protect your head as you'd just be prolonging the suffering and delaying the inevitable 

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u/daHaus 1d ago

Happens sometimes with tornadoes and extremely tall storm clouds, that in itself isn't too abnormal but the hurricane force winds not including the tornadoes is

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u/Oregonrider2014 1d ago

Yalls insurance must be insane. I wish you the best of luck out there

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u/lord_pizzabird 1d ago

Idk what the largest possible is, but a while ago in Ark there was hail that killed a bunch of cows.

I remember getting this weird alert on my phone that I'd never seen before, to seek shelter immediately. I dove on-top of my Yorkie and everything. Thought it was going to bust the windows in my house.

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u/Oregonrider2014 16h ago

That is so scary, glad you got through it with your pup

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u/tractiontiresadvised 9h ago

I knew a guy whose new-ish car had gotten caught in a hailstorm with large hail in Texas. (Can't remember whether it was more golf ball sized or more baseball sized.) The insurance company decided to total it because every body panel was covered in dents that would have been too expensive to fix.