Natural disaster 2 September 2021. Huge stones from the sky destroy the city in Canada! Record hail hit Regina
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Hail and rain hit Regina's northwest the hardest, with 29 mm of rain and hail ranging from the size of marbles to golf balls.
Ali Pike watched from her home in Grand Coulee as growing storm clouds approached the community.
All of a sudden the hail just started,” she said. “I’ve never seen anything like that. I’ve never seen that much hail.”
Just a few minutes later her yard was covered in up to five centimetres of the icy chunks. Where the wind had blown against the house, the hail was piled a foot high. Pike said the high winds pushed her neighbour’s camper trailer several feet off its blocks, and she could see shingles and children’s toys strewn over the area.
Pike was thankful her home and vehicle were not damaged, but a small fence she used as a windbreak to protect her young trees was wrecked. Her husband’s vegetable garden and corn were also destroyed.
“It was very intense. (The storm) came in and lasted anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes and we had three to four inches of pebble-sized hail impeding the rain in our drainage systems,” said Jim Pratt, the town’s foreman and fire chief.
“It ended up it looked like snow on the ground here. In fact, we still have piles of hail in sheltered areas.”
The hail was followed by heavy rain, and with the hail already blocking drains and culverts, Pratt said there was a bit of localized flooding and a few people had water in their basements. A number of residents helped out by taking their shovels and unblocking drains. The storm also brought down a tree on a power line, creating a five-and-a-half-hour power outage in the community.
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