End of the world in Neuperlach Süd

18:30 Neuperlach Süd.
Worst hailstorm in the living history of Crusoe.
Repent!

Your watch is fast!

Nice. I think I may want to call my parents to find out if they're still alive.
However, how is it possible you post a picture of 18:30 at 18:28? Can you travel into the future?
My parents are not answering their phone. Uh oh, should I be worried now?

Garibaldi is a Timelord. But keep that one to yourself now.

And look the hail was so heavy that the dogs head and paws fell off.

It's apocalyptic out there, hails/gone back to rain/now holy-shit-torrential just started belting down here. Wow!

Run, run, run. Even my watch is running!
Balls everywhere.
Watch buggered!



Repent, repent!
The beginning is far!

I have a pretty nice view from my awesomely-covered balcony. Wonder how long this will last, and if the dealership working on my car has it under cover or indoors. Hope it's still up on the lift!

Good thing I am not in Munich, it's all quiet here. All I hear is my fan and my roommate vacuum-cleaning. (I know you were all dying to know that.)
I hope my parents are not outside somewhere...

Just saw your parents Mariposa. They were running fast too!
Like the hammers of hell!
Ahhh, it's fierce bad here.
The Rosary is the only man for it!
A coupla decades and we'll all be fine.
My nerves are all shot!

Eee! It's dead nice out West.

It's all over!
We survived.



Praise the Lord!
Imitate the dog!
Bowls of ice cream all round!

Well, I am glad. Are all SE Munich TTers accounted for? I hope we didn't suffer any losses.

Got one on the heed, i did. Smarts.

My Hausmeister is actually out right now, sweeping the hailstones off the walk. WTF

Impressive, the sound of coin-sized hailstones thwacking off glass and metal. All quiet now. Munich's safe for golfers again



Starts raining then suddenly...thwacking out of the heavens. Feel sorry for anyone caught out in that battering.

He might have to. FYI, when it snows, sidewalks have to be cleared of the snow (and you have to put little pebbles on the sidewalk, not sure what the verb is for that) by 7am, else if someone slips on the snow/ice, they can sue you. Same might go for hail, and since it is the evening...

So it looks like you have global warming in Neuperlach too!

Nice video there Punchbear. I liked the added "Oh! Fuck!" as you obviously leaned too far out the window and got pinged.

... and that's f...up three weekends' work in the garden.

Everything battered and flat. Not a bud or blossom in sight.

Back to bloody square one or just give up - which is my more dominant feeling right now. If my bleeding creator is in such a foul mood, why doesn't he take it out on his own cesspit family. They have fewer problems since one of the sons can do miracles. I am rightly pissed off.

Ask that creator of yours nicely and he might see his way to recreating the tomato plants from the heap of shredded leaves they now are. Not content with totalling the tomatoes, razing the roses, knackering the kumquat tree, phucking the phlox, buggering the basil, decimating the delphiniums, shredding the sorrel and hammering the honeysuckle, the bastard sent a few thousand cubic litres of rain in the night to follow up and flatten anything that was still standing (not a lot). Bastard. It's not much to ask, is it, a couple of recreated tomato plants. He could do it between breakfast and coffee break.

"kn" is not the same as "k"
Ouch!

Did Mr. C. tell you to plant tomatoes? If not, why should he clean up your mess? If he intended for you to grub in the earth he would have given you front paws like moles.
I do feel for you, it's like a death in the family. This time it's ok to cheat and buy half-grown tomatoes.

It's his mess, he did it.

Sarabyrd, we already had. Heirloom tomato plants (yellow, red oval, green and black), cocktail tomatoes, and we had one miserable little seedling that was all that came up from the lovingly planted trayful of seeds. Buggery.
Oh, and the hail made cack of the cannas, jacksed the jasmin and bollixed the bougainvillea as well.

He did.

So he basically gutted the garden.
Can I still be unhappy that mice are getting to my Radieserln?

Huh - you call that a hailstorm? Wimps, the lot of you! If you'd been in Munich in July 1984, you'd know what a real hailstorm is like ... sky going from broad daylight to literally black as night in about 15 minutes, chunks of ice the size of tennis balls pelting down for 5 or 10 minutes ... afterwards a scene of total devastation. About half of all the cars out on the streets down Bogenhausen way had their windscreen, or rear window, or both, shattered. And all of them were pitted with dents. It became known as the "Knaeckebrot" look. You could still see the occasional "Knaeckebrot" car driving around town for years afterwards.

Yesterday at around 18:15, just as the storm was approaching, I sat down at a table on the little terrace at Escobar in Haidhausen and ordered a salad and a fruit cocktail. Shortly after my food arrived, the storm hit with full force. My table was sheltered under the awning, but the wind was blowing a lot of spray in from the side. I got a bit damp, but it was great fun, watching people on the street running for cover. The bar staff clearly thought I was mad, but I explained that I was from England and we are used to a spot of rain.

I wasn't in Munich for that but I do remember hearing of it & seeing the cars that looked as if they had been machine-gunned.


So very true.

Damn right, GT.

I was here for the '84 storm and the sky turned green, i remember it distinctly, i was in a bar on the Maistr and all we could see was the cars getting hammered as if someone had literally taken a ball pein hammer to them and gone mad.

People were injured all over the place and lots of aircraft at the airport were also trashed. never seen anything like it in my life.

Ah yes! 12/04/1984. They had to stop a performance of the opera I was attending because of the noise of the golfball size hailstones bouncing off the copper opera house dome.
And for weeks after that you couldn't get a rubber hammer anywhere in Munich for love or money. Insurance compensation was being meted out on the basis of the number of dents in your car.
Up until about 3 years ago we still had some in the freezer.

That hailstorm is still in the Guinness book of records as being the worst ever...

I was there for that too, my mum desperately tried to get the garage door open to get the car in it, but there was so much hail infront of the door it wouldn't budge. We decided then it would be better to go inside. The car was battered, as well as all the plastic windowblinds on the house.
And we also kept some in the freezer for a long time to come.

We got DM 5,000 for a "totally ruined" car that still ran perfectly - gotta love them dents!

I think a lot of people did that, when I came to Munich in 1986 it was quite common to see older cars covered in dents driving around.

Well maybe we will see more of the same really soon.

some guys even went over their car with a hammer in order to get that "Hageldellen" and the money.
I remember some neighbour drove his car out of the garage when he saw the storm coming (new car), in order to get it washed. I still remember that storm with horror, being alone at home when all 4 windows in the attic broke, but at least we didn't have school the next day as the school roof got damaged too.

In 1984 my boyfriend sat next to a window eating ice cream when suddenly hailstones shattered the window and the ice cream bowl. Luckily he wasn't injured. Next day, his father drove to Rosenheim to get new glass for the windows, since the glass in Munich was all sold out.