Show giant hailstones we all know the man who talks about hailstones as big as your fist but at potter texas there fell a hailstone that measured 17 inches in circumference even this is by no means a record for the biggest men measured hailstone was Q by by 4 inches some yarns about hailstones take a lot of swallowing but in africa and india there are exceptionally tio nally heavy falls in 1936 the transvaal was hit by a hailstorm and in half an hour the countryside was three feet deep in haill baill cows and men surprised in the open had their skulls shattered and thousands of acres of crops were destroyed |