Hailstorm Hammers Denver

FOXNews/AP ^ | April 21, 2005

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Hailstorm Hammers Denver

April 21, 2005

DENVER — More than a dozen flights destined for Denver International Airport (search) were diverted to other cities Wednesday night after a quick-moving thunderstorm pounded the airport with hail.

United Airlines expected delays and cancelations through Thursday afternoon after diverting 16 flights, airline spokeswoman Andrea Arroyo said. Eleven flights landed in Colorado Springs (search), five flights were sent to Pueblo and one flight landed in Grand Junction.

An American Airlines flight was delayed three hours after landing in Colorado Springs, spokesman Billy Sanez said.

Lightning prompted several airlines to pull flight crews off the runways at the peak of the storm, airport spokesman Chuck Cannon said.

Windshields were shattered by grapefruit-sized hail in Washington County in the northeast corner of the state, but no injuries were immediately reported, according to the National Weather Service (search).

Sheets of hail fell briefly in downtown Denver, sending pedestrians running for building awnings and setting off car alarms.

[clee1]

Why couldn't this happen to leftist-bastion Boulder?

Lord God, work with us here...

[VOYAGER]

Sometimes He hails on the just and then on the unjust.

[Cowman]

Lord God, work with us here

I have never asked for much Lord but could you please make Michael Moore burst into flames.

[mollynme]

I can hear the fat sizzling now. LOL

[edpc]

I was out on the 16th when it struck. I didn't mind the grapefruit-sized hail, but when it became golf ball sized, I couldn't find my Titleist. Ruined the best round of my life.....

[Clintons Are White Trash]

I woke up around 3am here in St. Louis with a horrendous Hail/Thunderstorm. I haven't had the nerve to check the roof for damage yet, we just had it replaced last year because of the same thing...