Doni's journal: Hailstorm in Canberra!

On Tuesday night, the 27th of February, some selected parts of Canberra were hit by a hailstorm, and ANU was part of the "lucky" parts. Hail started raining down at around 10pm while I was watching some video in Jay Shen's room. I heard some sound outside which sounded like pebbles falling on a surface. Wasn't sure what it was until Zhong ran into the room and exclaimed "It's raining ice ah."

What followed was a real surprise as the 3 of us rushed down to the courtyard, and I forgot to wear any footwear, to look at this rare phenomenon. Ice was falling from the sky, the size of each varies from diameters of less than 1cm to 3-4cms. In the beginning, the frequency of the ice falling was not high, and we could go out, pick some ice and throw at one another, or put them down one's neck. Then it started to rain so heavily that it was pretty much impossible to head out there, except for a few crazy nuts. There is a guy who decided to run the breadth of the courtyard in the hail, and all for a slice of Tim Tam? Nuts...

The size of the ice

Another ice

Tom and Huiling with a whole bucket of ice. All of that ice eventually landed on Steve. No picture unfortunately

It's like finding Kryptonite!

It so happened that it was Random Tuesday Night and quite a number of people hit the pub as we were informed there was free beer there. FREE BEER? REALLY?! I felt really excited to go that night, but I was deterred, fortunately, by two things. First, I followed some of the guys to the sexuality talk as we wanted to know how we could get free sex. Didn't realise it wasn't about that. Got some free candies though. Secondly, I heard some rolling thunder at 9pm and decided it was better to stay back. So I was saved.

Some residents from Burgies who braved the hail and ran the way. The ice broke one of the straps on the girl's dress. But the most amazing thing was they saved the wine from utter destruction. Hurrah to them