www.iFourWinns.com

Wow. To hail with that. I'll gladly take the 118 degree heat of the California desert. Are people ever killed in those hail storms? It has to be dropping at or near terminal velocity....no?

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Matt-

2007 Four Winns H190
Earth First, We'll Mine the Other Planets Later

You bet it could kill people and has. This time everybody managed to keep safe. Kansas has a pretty good warning system for Severe Thunderstorms and most residents know to get the hell out of there cars. With that said I think the death toll is up to 5 in the State from Tornado's and every one of them was in a vehicle.

Tornado's are actually quite fun to watch and chase if your properly trained and know where to be. I'm an ex police officer and storm chaser but with the little guy you have seen in my posts I don't mess with any of it anymore.

Oh the other tell tale sign this was bad hail is the fact that serious damage was done to the interior of many cars. So the hail was falling hard enough to break safety glass and still have enough velocity to crack the dash or tear the fabric. Boats regardless of the covers don't stand a chance, this stuff will put a hole straight through the hull if it hits right.

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2008 Four Winns 224 Funship 5.0 GXI/DP Black w/ Tower
2007 GMC Crew Cab Short Bed / Bose Ed.
2007 Fourwinns H180 (SOLD)

"There are no stupid questions, only stupid people"

Oh, we get that too .

And Needles' heat
And Minot's cold
And Houston's humidity
And southern California's wind

Woo hoo



I heard an economist on Fox just now talking about this, and he was of the opinion that this won't really have an effect on local gas prices. I'll believe that tomorrow morning when I pass the stations.

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

Heh, back in high school I got beaned pretty good by a lacrosse ball sized gob of hail. Knocked me right over, and left me dazed for a few minutes. I've seen some put holes clear through a windshield. That and put a nasty spider-web bullseye in fiberglass. But I've never heard of anyone getting killed solely by getting hit by hail.

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-Bill Kearney, 2005 348 Vista

And to think I was irritated I had to shovel 4 feet of snow off the camp roof because i thought it may collapse..... I will shovel any day now.

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Guns kill people like spoons make people fat.
2007 Horizon 190 Gxi
97 Pathfinder SE 4x4
73 International Scout II

Feel free to move to kansas we have plenty of snow and ice here to.

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2008 Four Winns 224 Funship 5.0 GXI/DP Black w/ Tower
2007 GMC Crew Cab Short Bed / Bose Ed.
2007 Fourwinns H180 (SOLD)

"There are no stupid questions, only stupid people"

...and the NWS is predicting another Tornado outbreak tommorrow. Please.... they can't predict rain during a thunder storm; they definately cannot predict tornado's in advance!

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Walt B
"Debt-Charged"
Black '07 H210SS
6.2L Bravo One turning a 21P HIFive
Wakeboard Tower with Perfect Pass Stargazer version
Missouri River; Kansas City, Mo.

Well bring em on. I have one rule. Don't damage the boat, house or cars without totalling them completely. Wipe everything I own out with one nice little Tornado and I'm insured well enough you will be helping me pick out my new 230.

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2008 Four Winns 224 Funship 5.0 GXI/DP Black w/ Tower
2007 GMC Crew Cab Short Bed / Bose Ed.
2007 Fourwinns H180 (SOLD)

"There are no stupid questions, only stupid people"

Well things just got worse. This same area was the center of 14 tornadoes last night to include Kansas State where 2 thousand kids were at camps.

All reports say the kids are fine but we do have 2 confirmed fatalities in the area.

I'm there now, your thoughts and prayers for these folks are appreciated.

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2008 Four Winns 224 Funship 5.0 GXI/DP Black w/ Tower
2007 GMC Crew Cab Short Bed / Bose Ed.
2007 Fourwinns H180 (SOLD)

"There are no stupid questions, only stupid people"

My thoughts and prayers are definately with you guys. I hope everyone makes it through things alright. We do get the odd small tornado up here, but it is rare.

Is there some flooding going on around your area as well?

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2009 H180 w/3.0 Merc
Homebuilt Minimax Hydro
2011 Zodiac Cadet 310

Let's hope for the best. And that everyone is o.k. down there.

We'ver already had 3 tornadoes in the last 3 weeks here in the Winnipeg area. And it isn't even warm yet...

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Rob
2007 Four Winns 180 Horizon