Wijke wrote:
Hello all,

Videoclip of massive hail -- many injured; lots of damage.
http://www.4elements-earth.de/temp/hagel_rtl.avi


Wijke

Stop throwing golfballs at me! Not only large hail but
densely distributed which I think is rather unusual.
Nice to see you here again, Wijke. I had a colleague at work
called John Hagel, a name which was of Dutch rather than German
origin, so he said. I asked him what it meant and he told me. It
seems unusual for someone to be called "hail". On the other hand the
surname Snow is well-known in the UK, as are Sleet, Gale, Winter,
Winters, Summers and Spring.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.