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Related: About this forumShort hailstorm, about twenty minutes, Friday July 28
The neighbor's chimney accepted defeat.
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Short hailstorm, about twenty minutes, Friday July 28 (Original Post)
Ptah
Jul 2023
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Ptah
(33,560 posts)4. 15 minutes of weather, once a week.
stopdiggin
(13,107 posts)2. that ain't normal - did you have 70mph winds as well? -(nt)-
Ptah
(33,560 posts)3. The wind was fierce. The marble-sized hail was painful.
Kali
(55,931 posts)5. partly it is because that is not a masonry chimney
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
(13,107 posts)6. yep. that's the equivalent of a Christmas
decoration - stuck up on the roof with a staple gun.
(exaggerating for effect - and hopefully humor .. )
Ptah
(33,560 posts)7. It's a stucco duplex, circa 1990 I think.
The mesquite is on my side of the block wall.
The century-old saguaro is still standing.
bet it is older than that