{"id":5421,"date":"2017-04-24T07:47:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T12:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2017-04-24T07:47:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T12:47:59","slug":"the-hail-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5421","title":{"rendered":"The hail, you say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hail_2001\"<\/a>As the old poem goes, the fog comes on little cat feet.\u00a0 The hail on June 9th, 2001, however…well, that came in its own indescribable fashion.\u00a0 The most noteworthy memory of this is the two underpasses on 7th and 9th Streets filling up with ice and water.\u00a0 I was at a friend’s house that evening and remember walking to Thayer Avenue just east of St. Alexius to watch the city clearing chest-high piles of hail stones with a payloader and grader!<\/p>\n

In the process of going through old motorcycle racing video tapes last week I found the footage of this event, footage I had presumed lost.\u00a0 This was before I was into photography or videography, so even though I had a digital camcorder at the time I did not have a steady hand.\u00a0 But shaky amateur footage is better than none, right?\u00a0 Have a look:<\/p>\n