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Re: Wet Suits for Audi's

> 
> Phil Payne wrote:
> >The impact speed of hail is _not_ given by the simple terminal velocity
> >calculations. Hail often travels almost all the way to the surface in a
> >downdraught, and you have to add the downward speed of the air mass to
> >the nominal terminal velocity.

In 1989, in Illinois USA, we had a hailstorm, golf-ball size hail,
driven horizontally by 75MPH winds.
Some acts of God are simply can not be pre-empted.