Alberta hail

[Ache4Acres]

Wow some serious hail in Calgary and area.

As desperate as we are for rain that kinda hail can stay away!!

[Oliver88]

Wow, seems like there is a few crazy hail storms in Alberta every year. Explains the high premiums there.

[farmaholic]

Potential for severe storms exist in the Ghetto later this aft.

So much extremes.

[15444]

Looks like there is going to be a new car sales boom there shortly.

[Ache4Acres]

Blew apart a bunch of solar panels I bet.

Good luck in the ghetto! They just keep dialing back the rainfall in the forecast

[macdon02]

Are the insurance cos still cloud seeding around there? Or is that urban legend?

[TASFarms]

Are the insurance cos still cloud seeding around there? Or is that urban legend?

It looks like they are the way the systems break up.

[Blaithin]

Are the insurance cos still cloud seeding around there? Or is that urban legend?

There was apparently two planes seeding over Calgary and they still got creamed. Can you image if they hadn’t been 😱😱

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Are the insurance cos still cloud seeding around there? Or is that urban legend?

Definitely not urban legend. They seed clouds just west of our farm regularly. I've spoken with them about it, and they acknowledge that the theory is to create lots of nucleus's to make lots of small hail which falls out sooner, rather than fewer big hail stones which fall out later ( ie the highway 2 corridor). So essentially, they are sacrificing rural farmers crops in western Alberta to save urban cars, RV's and siding in higher population density areas. They admit this in writing. But we don't get compensated, or have our premiums subsidized for taking one for the team.

I can watch them and hear them with every approaching storm.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Looks like there is going to be a new car sales boom there shortly.

It seems that half the vehicles locally have been written off due to hail damage, paid out, and are still driving around with harmless dents years later. Somewhat of a scam in itself.

[woodland]

It seems that half the vehicles locally have been written off due to hail damage, paid out, and are still driving around with harmless dents years later. Somewhat of a scam in itself.

Shhhhhh!

We buy hail damaged insurance write offs for a fraction of their value. That way nobody notices our dings that we put in them. Out in the sticks shiny things don’t stay that way for long😉

[Blaithin]

Here’s outside of Acme. Heard every field of theirs got hit.

[macdon02]

In a day or 2 this will look like the above im thinking

[GDR]

Same storm that got Calgary last night dumped 3.5 inches in a few minutes west of me. (On already wet ground) There is field after field for about 5 miles that has washouts everywhere, ditches are full of topsoil, never seen anything quite like it.

Cloud seeders fly out of olds/didsbury airport. Can usually hear them on stormy days. As AB5 says a bit controversial around here and definately protect what they are paid to do, not the rest of us. Interesting ability though.