I couldn’t resist posting photos of hail damage to vehicles in the Manhattan airport-Ogden area from Monday morning.
The photos show the rear window of Kerri Winter’s car (she is a Linn High grad) and the sunroof of the vehicle next to her. Notice the hail even blasted holes in the interior of Kerri’s car!
Here’s the story:
Kerri arrived at work on Monday morning and it was a sunny day. She works at a large business located near the Manhattan airport. Soon, however, black clouds moved in and she said it was almost like nighttime.
In came the wind and severe weather and the worst of it hit around 9 a.m. when SOFTBALL-sized hail, driven by high winds, fell for approximately 15-20 minutes. Kerri said it sounded like the roof was being beaten with baseball bats and you couldn’t hear anything.
Many employees were at the business windows watching the damage occur outside, including extreme damage to the vehicles in the parking lot.
Once it was over and they went out to assess the damage, she said there was glass everywhere and since then, of the approximately 200 vehicles in the parking lot, 90 percent of the vehicles have been totaled by insurance adjusters.
She said the lineup of wreckers to tow the vehicles on Monday afternoon was something to see.
Her building also took heavy damage to the roof. She said there were so many holes in the roof, it was like it was raining, but inside. The roofers were able to come out by Monday afternoon to start caulking thousands of holes. They had to work well into Tuesday to finish the job and it sounds like they’ll have to get an entirely new roof.
She said there are a lot of life-long Kansans working there and this was the worst hail anyone had ever seen.
Seeing the damage to the parked cars, I can’t imagine what the storm must have been like for someone driving on the highway there!
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