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Busted Windshield from Within

2015-01-22 By Roger Edwards

Busted Windshield

Fortunately this wasn’t my ride. Unfortunately, it was that of friends who were in a two-vehicle storm-intercept  caravan with me, somehow getting plunked by a rogue hailstone of at least three inches in diameter along the edge of a core.   We were headed back W, hoping to get a good sunset view of the storm’s rear–just not through this.  And now, as Paul Harvey used to say: the rest of the story!  A curse can become a blessing.  The need to repair this damage forced my friends to go southeast and stay in Salina instead of heading west toward Colorado for the night, as originally planned.  That, in turn, put them in ideal position for driving the short distance to intercept the big, nearly stationary tornado near Bennington the next day, once the repair was completed.  In the end, they were quite glad this happened!

6 W Mankato, KS (27 May 13) Looking SSW
39.7782, -98.3252

Filed Under: All Hail, Unusual Weather Damage Tagged With: damage, Great Plains, hail, Kansas, Mankato, storms, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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