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Date: 04-03-98 (15:43)             Number: 195
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>>> Continued from previous message
wrote, "A swamp buggy is an automobile or truck
chassis (no body panels) mounted on four oversized,
deep-tread mud tires."  I stand corrected, Court.
Thanks for writing.)
from the UFO Files:
1867: PHENOMENAL HAIL
          FALLS IN INDIA
     On March 28, 1867, gigantic hailstones pounded
the villages north of Adoni, a city in Andhra Pradesh
state 424 kilometers (265 miles) northwest of Madras.
Here's the original report:
     "In Adoni to the north of the talook, at
Nakkulmittah and other villages, the hail is described
as being the size of cocoa nuts (coconuts) to
woodapples, and lying to one foot (25 centimeters)
in depth; in some places destroying the wet and dry
(season) crops."
     "In Gooti, at eight p.m. on the (March) 28th,
the hail was described as ranging from the size of
bullets to limes..."
     "In Anantapur talook the size of the hailstones
is apparently incredible.  I give, however, the local
report, that in a field in the village of Bondalavada,
some of the (hail)stones were two-thirds of a
cubic yard (576 square inches or 1,152 square
centimeters--J.T.) in size."
     "In the village of Chadula a cubic span, and
in other villages of six seers, or three pounds
in weight; this last was verified by the Tahsildar
(local official--J.T.).  Two men 2,470 sheep and
eight cattle were killed, and some thatched houses
were destroyed."  (See Symon's Monthly
Meteorological Magazine, volume 2, number 53
for 1867, "Severe Hailstorm in India."  Reprinted
in TORNADOS, DARK DAYS, ANOMALOUS
PRECIPITATION, AND WEATHER-RELATED
PHENOMENA, compiled by William A. Corliss,
Sourcebook Project, April 1983, page 100.)
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