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Originally posted by mrvmax:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
The article was good, but the Tweet is pretty misleading. That wasn't merely a round of bad weather. They had 2-3/4" diameter hail in that storm. It went through car windshields, blew out windows in buildings, ruined roofs, etc. Even though Texas gets a lot of violent thunderstorms that sized hail is pretty rare, and I've never had a replace a roof from hail in all of the years I've lived in Houston.

Heck, that sized hail is large enough to kill cattle so PETA could make a similar Tweet about the beef industry, pork industry, poultry industry, etc (i.e. Is it really wise to make ourselves dependent on food that can be killed by a bout of bad weather?).

I live in a different direction from downtown Houston, but where I live is a similar distance from downtown. The NWS had a large diameter hail warning out for all of Houston, and believe me I breathed a sigh of relief baseball sized hail didn't hit my house. I don't have solar panels, but roughly 10% of my neighbors have solar panels.

True but it’s inevitable and not financially viable long term. The whole point is that wind and solar are not the salvation to energy as they portray them to be. The fact is that nuclear is our best option long term financially and practically and billions have been wasted on wind and solar.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
Yikes. Those panels are typically impact tested, but baseball-sized may exceed those specs by a bit.

Or they went cheap on the panels.