Hunting Banned in Parts of Austria After Hailstones Kill 90 Percent of Wild Game
October 21st, 2009Via: Telegraph:
Hunting has been banned in parts of Austria after freak storms with tennis ball-sized hailstones killed up to 90 per cent of the wild game population.
Hundreds of deer were discovered either dead or so badly injured they had to be put down by wildlife experts.
In the country’s rural Salzburg province, 90 per cent of pheasants and 80 per cent of hares were killed in the hail storms.
Sepp Eder, the hunting chief, said : “Animals sought shelter in farms, in fields of grain but the hail was so heavy it smashed right into them. It may take five years for animal numbers to recover, if they ever do so.”
Farmers are believed to have suffered more than £60 million in damages to crops and buildings.
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This reminded me of the prophecy in Revelation 16 about huge hailstones (34 to 80+ kg, depending on who you ask). Some say such sizes are impossible but then I found a rather colourful website about ‘megacryometeors’. The ‘meteor’ component of the name is not a reference to such objects having their origin in outer space but in meteorological (atmospheric) phenomena, though ice meteorites can occur. None of the incidents listed could be classed as storms however as they mostly involve single chunks of ice. The heaviest weight I saw claims for was around 200kg.
http://tierra.rediris.es/megacryometeors/antepaises.html
http://tierra.rediris.es/bloquesdehielo/novedades2.html