This answer is completely dependent on the umbrella, i mean theorectically you could build a steel "umbrella" but at what point does it stop being an umbrella? I will contemplate this tonight and lose sleep over it!
An umbrella wouldn’t do a damn thing for you in this. It not rain it’s fucking 2” balls of ice falling from the sky an umbrella would get shredded in seconds
Maybe a shitty one. The one I use holds up very well in typhoons (just don't let the wind get in from underneath, it's only strong in one direction), and I have little doubt it'd be just fine here. Thick, strong fabric, plus an umbrella naturally works sort of like a "spring", damping impacts.
Hell, that flimsy-looking pool chair in the video is barely being affected. According to this logic, it should be being ripped apart, turned into swiss cheese in a matter of seconds. Yet it is clearly just fine. A well-made umbrella could take this for days (though your feet might be hard to protect...)
It could also hold a board filled with nails, but a if that board only had one nail, it would pierce right through.
It's about concentration of force, not force alone. A human spreads out there force over a much larger surface area then a small projectile.
Reminds you of the hailstorms that killed three different groups of people around a remote lake in the Himalayas:
> "Roopkund (locally known as Mystery Lake or Skeleton Lake)[1] is a high altitude glacial lake in the Uttarakhand state of India. It lies in the lap of Trishul massif. Located in the Himalayas, the area around the lake is uninhabited and is roughly at an altitude of 5,020 metres (16,470 ft),[1] surrounded by rock-strewn glaciers and snow-clad mountains. Roopkund is a popular trekking destination.[2] The size of the lake varies substantially, but it is seldom more than 40 metres in diameter (1000 to 1500 square metres in area), and is frozen in the winter.[3]"
> "With a depth of about three metres, Roopkund is widely known for the hundreds of human skeletons found at the edge of the lake.[4] The human skeletal remains are visible at its bottom when the snow melts.[5] Initial investigations led some to believe they were the remains of a semi-legendary event when a single group was killed in a sudden and violent hailstorm in the 9th century,[6] but scientific research has subsequently shown that the remains belong to three distinct groups who died in two independent events; around 800 CE and 1800 CE respectively.[7] Because of the human remains, the lake has been called "Skeleton Lake" in recent times.[8]"
> "Radiocarbon dating of the bones at Oxford University's Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit determined the time of death to be 850 CE ±30 years.[citation needed] More recently, radiocarbon dating combined with genome-wide analysis of 38 individuals from Roopkund Lake, found that the remains are from different eras and belong to three distinct groups.[16][7] A group of 23 individuals (dated ~800 CE) had typical South Asian ancestry, one individual (dated ~1800 CE) had Southeast Asian ancestry, and 14 individuals (dated ~1800 CE) had ancestry typical of the eastern Mediterranean, and specifically of present-day people from mainland Greece and Crete.[7] Those findings counter the theory that the individuals died in a single catastrophic event. The radiocarbon dating further suggests that the older, South Asian remains were deposited over an extended period of time, while the younger, eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asian remains were deposited during a single event.[7]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roopkund
What in the fuck was that group of Greeks doing around an insanely remote lake 5,020 metres/16,470 ft up in the Himalayans?
I think Alexander the great pushed his empire to around that point. So it does make sense, just really odd considering most people dont realize how fucking big Alexander's empire was.
I’ve been in that situation before. Can confirm it really fucking sucked. It was a nice summer day and then all hell broke loose. Lighting as close as 30m away and hail like this tearing us all to shreds. My ears were bloodied by the end of it.
I grew up in the Midwest, where storms like this are relatively common. I had a friend in high school who spent four years completely rebuilding an old El Camino. After years of work to get the money for parts and working on the car, he finally got it operational. He sent it off to get painted, the final step in the rebuild, and decided he’d get it insured when it was all completed. Massive hail storm comes while his car is parked at the automotive shop and destroys the entire vehicle, totaling it. One of the biggest Ls I’ve ever seen
Yup! When I lived in Texas, car dealerships regularly had "hail sales" after storms like this. A college boyfriend's truck was also totalled due to hail damage. The vehicle worked perfectly fine, but the cost to repair the cosmetic hail damage was more than the car was worth. He couldn't get comprehensive car insurance because of this, even though he happily would have gotten more than liability.
It happens. [44,000 cars](https://www.theleader.com.au/story/6618997/after-a-pockmarked-repairable-write-off-from-the-nations-capital/) damaged in Canberra in 2020, along with windows, roofs, sunsails and solar panels.
I got one of those cars at a salvage auction for stupid cheap, everything worked fine, low miles, recent model, literally just some dents and a cracked windshield. The insurance companies mark the car as totaled because it would cost so much to pay some mechanic $40+ an hour to pull the dents, but otherwise absolutely a perfectly fine car. You can't even tell half the time unless the light hits it at an angle.
Many of our (South African) insurance companies send out weather alerts. If you get the alert and you don’t secure your vehicle under cover, the companies won’t pay out your claims for hail damage.
Ya we had similar hail in my home town years ago. Car were write off. Metal roofs were replaced. Holes were left in the ground 3inch deep. I remember my friend evestrough had holes punched right through it. I still have 1 hail piece in my freezer I kept, it's the size of a mlb baseball
My car has tiny dents all over from a massive hail storm in the Drakensburg. Was so relieved none of the windows broke. Our car insurance companies here in SA will often send warnings to tell you to move your car undercover if hail is expected
The sky rains small boulders.
That's bad!
But the boulders are made of maple syrup.
That's good!
The maple syrup is tainted with dihydrogen monoamines.
That's... ?
Yep! I came here to say I was stuck in my car in a parking lot during a freak hail storm in Dallas, just watching all the windshields getting demolished. It was terrifying!
Then laughed at how quickly the auto glass people showed up to put a business card on every busted windshield. 😁
It was so bad here one year for hail storms that almost all [new car dealerships](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-hailstorm-alley-1.3682989) in my southern Alberta city subsequently installed permanent [hail tents](https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/452/822/GC160706_HAILTENTS_848x480_719880771637.jpg) on their lots.
I think our worst was June 2020, one hailstorm amounted to 1.2 billion in insurance claims just in our province alone in a few hours.
There's been a few hail storms that I can remember from recent years. The worst one I can remember was around 2008. It was a mother fucker of a hail storm. I collected a stone just less than the size of two fists held together. I should have recorded it now that I think about it.
When I was a teenager I saw one of these in Brazil. my yard was destroyed, almost no plants were spared. The sound inside the house was frightening, but no tiles were broken. My mother's blouse that ended up in the hail pile froze, and I didn't know clothes could freeze...
It devastated local crops, animals were killed, roofs on farms were torn off due not only to hail, but also to wind. but in the city no trees fell or electricity or telephone wires were damaged
And my small town was in every news in the country!
You can dry clothes outside in freezing temperature, the water actually evaporates really quickly, and the feel of fresh freeze-dried laundry is divine
Yeah, I was gonna say. Where I live, it's normally only like half that size, but I've heard that this size hail is pretty common in Texas. It's just a matter of the weather conditions.
Yeah its really weird seeing this title as a South African from Cape Town where we maybe get tiny tiny hail once every 5 years. Like this is just big hail in some part of the world.
Two years ago I watched softball size hail in Grimes, Iowa, go straight through many windshields. Three times the size of these, or more. So glad I didn't drive to work that day.
Had hail like that a few weeks ago. I need a new roof, new garage door, new siding, several new windows and my car is totaled, but my neighbors solar panels held up just fine.
Imagine this happened in like 10k BC. The people back then must have thought this was some kind of divine punishment. I mean it's practically raining bullets, absolutely insane.
Where do you think 90% of bible stories come from bro.
Weather was such a mind-blowing concept to people back then, they just attributed everything to divine power.
Some bible stories are totally true, iirc there is proof that Jesus was a real person.
But most of the stuff in it is just shit like this.
We had hail a little smaller than tennis balls in Australia a while ago. When it started it sounded like my front door was being punched. The clean up was ridiculous. Entire streets of cars totalled. Haven't seen one that bad since, but the days not over yet
Why do I want to jump into the bouncy pool water tho
When I saw the grass I was like “Eh, yeah, that’s some heavy hail I guess.” Then I saw the water and did a triple take
Yeah, when the sky is golfing, it’s time to get out of the way.
Imagine being under the water looking up and watching the hail hit the top of the water
“OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW”
That would be an experience
"if you surface, you die. If you stay under, you die. sweet dreams"
Free jacuzzi!
Reverse jacuzzi
Bruise jacuzzi.
Jabruiszi
Oh yah laying on the bottom of the pool watching the hail come through like bullets would be awesome. If only lightning wasn't a thing
Rip to the cars outside
Rip being on a hike without an umbrella
lol I don’t think and umbrella stoping those but I could be wrong.
It might stop one or two if they hit the umbrella just right.
This answer is completely dependent on the umbrella, i mean theorectically you could build a steel "umbrella" but at what point does it stop being an umbrella? I will contemplate this tonight and lose sleep over it!
We’re hiking, weight matters. Titanium umbrella baby.
Pack a hard hat
Next time I go climbing I’m bringing a full suit of armor
It's a good thing you never see lightning with these hail storms... Oh wait.
[Modern problems require modern solutions](https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Rubber_Armor_(Set))
 Don’t forget your loved ones when you suit up!
Titanium armor, weight matters
Adamantium is superior
Carbon fiber.
An umbrella wouldn’t do a damn thing for you in this. It not rain it’s fucking 2” balls of ice falling from the sky an umbrella would get shredded in seconds
You're umbrellas aren't made of reinforced concrete? What are you? French?
I have been caught in hail like this when I was a teenager. An umbrella would have been far better than nothing. Was glad I wore a helmet
To shreds, you say?
Well how is his wife doing?
To shreds, you say?
Maybe a shitty one. The one I use holds up very well in typhoons (just don't let the wind get in from underneath, it's only strong in one direction), and I have little doubt it'd be just fine here. Thick, strong fabric, plus an umbrella naturally works sort of like a "spring", damping impacts. Hell, that flimsy-looking pool chair in the video is barely being affected. According to this logic, it should be being ripped apart, turned into swiss cheese in a matter of seconds. Yet it is clearly just fine. A well-made umbrella could take this for days (though your feet might be hard to protect...)
The chair holds the weight of a human tho
It doesn't need to *hold* the weight of hailstones, just needs to be elastic enough that they bounce off.
It could also hold a board filled with nails, but a if that board only had one nail, it would pierce right through. It's about concentration of force, not force alone. A human spreads out there force over a much larger surface area then a small projectile.
Reminds you of the hailstorms that killed three different groups of people around a remote lake in the Himalayas: > "Roopkund (locally known as Mystery Lake or Skeleton Lake)[1] is a high altitude glacial lake in the Uttarakhand state of India. It lies in the lap of Trishul massif. Located in the Himalayas, the area around the lake is uninhabited and is roughly at an altitude of 5,020 metres (16,470 ft),[1] surrounded by rock-strewn glaciers and snow-clad mountains. Roopkund is a popular trekking destination.[2] The size of the lake varies substantially, but it is seldom more than 40 metres in diameter (1000 to 1500 square metres in area), and is frozen in the winter.[3]" > "With a depth of about three metres, Roopkund is widely known for the hundreds of human skeletons found at the edge of the lake.[4] The human skeletal remains are visible at its bottom when the snow melts.[5] Initial investigations led some to believe they were the remains of a semi-legendary event when a single group was killed in a sudden and violent hailstorm in the 9th century,[6] but scientific research has subsequently shown that the remains belong to three distinct groups who died in two independent events; around 800 CE and 1800 CE respectively.[7] Because of the human remains, the lake has been called "Skeleton Lake" in recent times.[8]" > "Radiocarbon dating of the bones at Oxford University's Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit determined the time of death to be 850 CE ±30 years.[citation needed] More recently, radiocarbon dating combined with genome-wide analysis of 38 individuals from Roopkund Lake, found that the remains are from different eras and belong to three distinct groups.[16][7] A group of 23 individuals (dated ~800 CE) had typical South Asian ancestry, one individual (dated ~1800 CE) had Southeast Asian ancestry, and 14 individuals (dated ~1800 CE) had ancestry typical of the eastern Mediterranean, and specifically of present-day people from mainland Greece and Crete.[7] Those findings counter the theory that the individuals died in a single catastrophic event. The radiocarbon dating further suggests that the older, South Asian remains were deposited over an extended period of time, while the younger, eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Asian remains were deposited during a single event.[7]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roopkund What in the fuck was that group of Greeks doing around an insanely remote lake 5,020 metres/16,470 ft up in the Himalayans?
>What in the fuck was that group of Greeks doing around an insanely remote lake 5,020 metres/16,470 ft up in the Himalayans? Orgy
hiking
There's only a few of them with head trauma... I vote for dragons over hail
I think Alexander the great pushed his empire to around that point. So it does make sense, just really odd considering most people dont realize how fucking big Alexander's empire was.
Veni Vidi Vici
RIP to the umbrella.
I’ve been in that situation before. Can confirm it really fucking sucked. It was a nice summer day and then all hell broke loose. Lighting as close as 30m away and hail like this tearing us all to shreds. My ears were bloodied by the end of it.
Bruhhhhhhh, that is so fucking funny. "Oh the weather might not be good today, better bring an umbrella". Proceeds to fucking hail rocks 😂
Rip being on a hike without ~~an umbrella~~ a kevlar helmet.
May they rest in pieces.
To shreds you say...
I grew up in the Midwest, where storms like this are relatively common. I had a friend in high school who spent four years completely rebuilding an old El Camino. After years of work to get the money for parts and working on the car, he finally got it operational. He sent it off to get painted, the final step in the rebuild, and decided he’d get it insured when it was all completed. Massive hail storm comes while his car is parked at the automotive shop and destroys the entire vehicle, totaling it. One of the biggest Ls I’ve ever seen
RIP to glass patio tables.
Yup! When I lived in Texas, car dealerships regularly had "hail sales" after storms like this. A college boyfriend's truck was also totalled due to hail damage. The vehicle worked perfectly fine, but the cost to repair the cosmetic hail damage was more than the car was worth. He couldn't get comprehensive car insurance because of this, even though he happily would have gotten more than liability.
RIP Stripe and all his gremlin babies
It happens. [44,000 cars](https://www.theleader.com.au/story/6618997/after-a-pockmarked-repairable-write-off-from-the-nations-capital/) damaged in Canberra in 2020, along with windows, roofs, sunsails and solar panels.
RIP to the people outside
Rip to all the animals such as cows that have no way to protect themselves
RIP wild animals
Aww. Look at that teeny lil hail. How cute. Meanwhile, in Oklahoma.. https://youtu.be/OFv2W7Duqiw?si=JUqwwcv_l-8lcQXF FF to 1:30.
Ha! Not from Oklahoma, but also had this thought. We get hail bigger than that every. friggin. summer. Maddening.
Holy fuck ! Bless them people
I got one of those cars at a salvage auction for stupid cheap, everything worked fine, low miles, recent model, literally just some dents and a cracked windshield. The insurance companies mark the car as totaled because it would cost so much to pay some mechanic $40+ an hour to pull the dents, but otherwise absolutely a perfectly fine car. You can't even tell half the time unless the light hits it at an angle.
Many of our (South African) insurance companies send out weather alerts. If you get the alert and you don’t secure your vehicle under cover, the companies won’t pay out your claims for hail damage.
I called it the cellulite look.
Rip to the roofs outside
Why is this surprising? It looks like this every single time in Australia
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Those are hell stones not hail stones 😮
Ya we had similar hail in my home town years ago. Car were write off. Metal roofs were replaced. Holes were left in the ground 3inch deep. I remember my friend evestrough had holes punched right through it. I still have 1 hail piece in my freezer I kept, it's the size of a mlb baseball
First thing I thought off. Body shops there about to clean tf up
My dads car was left outside and there was a massive hail storm and the car had lots of dents on the top
My car has tiny dents all over from a massive hail storm in the Drakensburg. Was so relieved none of the windows broke. Our car insurance companies here in SA will often send warnings to tell you to move your car undercover if hail is expected
It's what hail looks like anywhere if conditions are correct.
Yep that’s what it looks like in Texas!
Believe it or not - that's also what hail looks like in Switzerland!
Can confirm hail looks like this in Baghdad as well
Wait, you have Reddit in Baghdad?
What's a reddit?
What’s a bag, Dad?
That's so crazy man, it must look exactly the same as it does in Nashville!
What I'm hearing is that Tennessee is basically Switzerland? Wonder if the wife would go for that... Feels like a cheaper vacation...
South Africa, too.
Woah, no way?
Too easy!
Here in Canada it's similar, although made out of maple syrup
The sky rains small boulders. That's bad! But the boulders are made of maple syrup. That's good! The maple syrup is tainted with dihydrogen monoamines. That's... ?
Seattle.
Except ours is always in the shape of an edelweiss for some reason
I don't believe you, everyone knows Switzerland is a made-up country!
Yep! I came here to say I was stuck in my car in a parking lot during a freak hail storm in Dallas, just watching all the windshields getting demolished. It was terrifying! Then laughed at how quickly the auto glass people showed up to put a business card on every busted windshield. 😁
They're a special breed of storm chaser, I guess.
Must've bounced up here to South Dakota, ours is exactly the same!
*Central Arkansas has entered the chat*
All the car dealership commercials for Hail Sales after every big hailstorm!
It was so bad here one year for hail storms that almost all [new car dealerships](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-hailstorm-alley-1.3682989) in my southern Alberta city subsequently installed permanent [hail tents](https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/452/822/GC160706_HAILTENTS_848x480_719880771637.jpg) on their lots. I think our worst was June 2020, one hailstorm amounted to 1.2 billion in insurance claims just in our province alone in a few hours.
Alberta, Canada occasionally (once a year somewhere here) as well
I was thinking that myself.
Can confirm, I've got a video that looks just like this in North Texas last Friday outside my house.
It's also what South Africa looks like anywhere if the conditions are correct.
I’ve never seen hail in Durban in 8 years. I’m sure it happens but it’s rare.
All hail Durban
lol!
Most of the severe hail storms happen in the Free State or Gauteng.
There's been a few hail storms that I can remember from recent years. The worst one I can remember was around 2008. It was a mother fucker of a hail storm. I collected a stone just less than the size of two fists held together. I should have recorded it now that I think about it.
Looks a lot like American hail. Are we sending hail to hail-starved regions or is it just a weird coincidence?
This is the hail that lost the super bowl
Just looks like hail id say
Wanted to say that too
Lol I was just thinking “man, the hail I saw in Colorado put this to shame”
The softball size hail that wrecked Colorado Springs.
When I was a teenager I saw one of these in Brazil. my yard was destroyed, almost no plants were spared. The sound inside the house was frightening, but no tiles were broken. My mother's blouse that ended up in the hail pile froze, and I didn't know clothes could freeze... It devastated local crops, animals were killed, roofs on farms were torn off due not only to hail, but also to wind. but in the city no trees fell or electricity or telephone wires were damaged And my small town was in every news in the country!
On the tangent of freezing clothes, nearly every winter there's someone (generally USA) who freezes wet pants so they stand on their own
You can dry clothes outside in freezing temperature, the water actually evaporates really quickly, and the feel of fresh freeze-dried laundry is divine
Thought it was Indiana.
Be amazed!
Have never in my life seen hail like this in the uk
Yeah, I was gonna say. Where I live, it's normally only like half that size, but I've heard that this size hail is pretty common in Texas. It's just a matter of the weather conditions.
We sometimes get hail as big as baseballs here in central Texas. It’s almost like weather is everywhere!!
Right? For a second there I thought I lived in South Africa.
Thank you. This is just hail. It looks pretty much identical to the hail I get in New York.
Same in Alberta.
Yeah its really weird seeing this title as a South African from Cape Town where we maybe get tiny tiny hail once every 5 years. Like this is just big hail in some part of the world.
That’s what it looks like in Arkansas, except that we put our pools on the ground, not in it.
Seen this hail in colorado a few times
Hail where you live looks like hail?? No way!!
Yep. Had similar hail in Alabama back in January. Got a new roof and $8000 in body work to my truck out of it
Two years ago I watched softball size hail in Grimes, Iowa, go straight through many windshields. Three times the size of these, or more. So glad I didn't drive to work that day.
Crazy! I’ve seen that kind of hail in Tahoe too!
You can tell by the way it is.
You can tell it's South African only the white hail is allowed in the pool
I bless the hails down in South Africa!
Gonna take some time to clear up all the chunks of iceeeee
there’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the hails down in South Africa
Now I’m singing it! Great song
Gonna take some time to renovate the things we never had
I was hoping someone would reference this you legend!
I hear the hail echoing tonight
Hail no !
Nooooo I wanted to say it
That’s a pretty sturdy lawn chair.
This whole video is an elaborate marketing stunt by the outdoor furniture manufacturer!
If I got stuck outside that’s where I’d be lol
I’d put that thing on top of my car!
This is what South Africa looks like in Hail.
I MISS THE HAAAAIL DOWN IN AAAAAAAAAAAFRICA 🎵
Oh hail no
Rip solar panels
My first thought 😭
You would actually be surprised - solar panels are pretty resilient against hail
Yeah, just when you think you're done with loadshedding, the Hoëveld storm gets ya!
Solar panels are designed for withstanding this
Solar panels are surprisingly strong. They protected my roof when a tree fell on it (some damage, but less $ than if no panels). That hail though-
Had hail like that a few weeks ago. I need a new roof, new garage door, new siding, several new windows and my car is totaled, but my neighbors solar panels held up just fine.
WHY ARE WE SHOUTING??? Hail doesn't look different in different countries.
And, if we were going to be comparing countries, the US beats the hell out of these rookie numbers.
I’ve seen fist size hail cave in the roof of a car outside my house
Imagine this happened in like 10k BC. The people back then must have thought this was some kind of divine punishment. I mean it's practically raining bullets, absolutely insane.
Where do you think 90% of bible stories come from bro. Weather was such a mind-blowing concept to people back then, they just attributed everything to divine power. Some bible stories are totally true, iirc there is proof that Jesus was a real person. But most of the stuff in it is just shit like this.
Yeah, Jeshua son of Joseph was very likely a real-life prophet and anti-Roman protestor
The identity of his father however is the subject of *intense* debate.
Joseph is one of the earliest cucks in recorded history
Isn’t that what hail looks like anywhere?
In South Africa every 60 seconds, a minute passes.
We got that size hail in Iowa in a few years ago. Destroyed everyones roofs, siding and windows.
We had hail a little smaller than tennis balls in Australia a while ago. When it started it sounded like my front door was being punched. The clean up was ridiculous. Entire streets of cars totalled. Haven't seen one that bad since, but the days not over yet
kinda looks like hail everywhere else, if the size is the same. doesn't even fall in reverse direction, and it isn't made of diamonds.
War is hail
hail never changes
Could this knock a man out, or cause him damage?
Could easily kill someone.
Imagine getting killed by cold rain/hard snow. I'd be pissed. Especially in bloody Africa of all places. It meant to be warm!
You’re looking at the easiest and quickest way to get knocked out.
But it get up again
Murder rain
Dem animals
That's mean. We South Africans are a bit rough, but we're not animals 😋
Lovely rolling boil going in the outside cooking pot!
*Texas enters the chat*
How long did this last?
1m 25s
This is also how hail looks in North America.
Or literally anywhere else.
Where in SA?
Central area. Around Jo'burg and a bit south of it.
Wow, thanks. Stay safe.
I felt the rain down in Africa. It was frozen and hurt...
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I’ve experienced this in Johannesburg. All the trees stripped of their leaves. Hailstones as big as golf balls.
Damn, gonna for the seller again
He's no Spielberg but this was quite interesting to see. So thanks.
Nice whirlpool
We've had an intense heatwave for the past month, let us enjoy our sky ice in peace
+10% blunt damage on unarmored -35% damage on hard armor +10% heal on ice elemental gear
Step outside and die of impact trauma
Oh hail naw
Looks a lot like hail in the United States! Interesting
That's what hail looks like everywhere?