Show fierce hailstorks hailstorms Hail Hall storms in n england large stories are told of the damage done by hailstones in minnesota recently however old england itself has some statistics to show on may 30 1897 a terrific hailstorm visited seaford sussex some of the bolts m measure 41 4 inches in circumference after lying on the ground for fully seven minutes on june 24 in the same year the most disastrous visitation of the kind in modern times ravaged parts of essex escel and the adjacent counties animals and poultry were killed and crops ruined at Inga ingatestone the hall ball broke through a slated roof and at baddow baddoo it went through windows and cia the blinds to pl clems ecres the damage in essex alone was at least 1 the latest storm of exceptional violence occurred in Huntingdon shire on august 2 1906 the hall hail consisted of hard pieces of ice from three to four inches in length and killed rabbits and other small animals wholesale |