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Hail in Cardston
Posted on July 27, 2012, at 10:08 am

I’m in Cardston, Alberta, visiting in-laws. Yesterday Jess and I went to Waterton national park and decided to stay longer than planned. Good thing we did: Cardston was subject to a brief but destructive storm, with hail larger than the size of golf balls.

Update: These photos were picked up by a a few media outlets. The Edmonton Journal, The Calgary Herald, 94.1 CJOC, and CBC.

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  • Tracy Fuller

    Hi Blair,

    It’s Tracy Fuller writing from the CBC in Calgary.
    We’d LOVE to show a few of them in our evening news broadcast.
    We would OF COURSE credit you with the photo attribution.

    Let me know if that is possible.
    Thanks,

    Tracy Fuller
    CBC Calgary
    Office 
    403-521-6038
    Mobile 
    403-968-2891
    tracy.fuller@cbc.ca
    http://www.cbc.ca/calgary

  • http://blairkelly.ca/ Blair Kelly

    Hi Tracy! I’d be more than happy if you used some of my photos on your news broadcast. Please do. Thanks and take care! :)

  • Bweismiller

    Hi Blair,

    It’s Bryan Weismiller from the Calgary Herald.
    We’d also love to showcase your photos.
    Again, we would give you full-credit for anything used.
    Thank you very much.

    Bryan Weismiller
    Calgary Herald
    403-235-7433
    bweismiller@calgaryherald.com  

  • http://blairkelly.ca/ Blair Kelly

    Hi Bryan. I’d be more than happy for you to use my photos. Thanks and take care!

  • Tandryo

    Blair,

    Nice work, do you have any shots of the rural areas, crops taht got damaged? I’d like to use in an Agricultural ad were running this week? I need to get images soon as we have a 2:00 deadline let me know and thanks – Great photos Terry

    Terry Andryo   Senior Agriculture Marketing Manager  |  Business & Agriculture  |  ATB Financial
    3rd Floor – 239 – 8th Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta  T2P 1B9
    Office  403.974.5621  |  Cell  403.818.9293 

  • http://blairkelly.ca/ Blair Kelly

    Hey everyone, I already replied to Terry via e-mail about this, so I’m posting this here in case anyone is interested: unfortunately I don’t have any shots of crops that got damaged and that sort of thing. What you see in this post is a good indication of the range of pictures I’ve got of this incident. But thanks for the interest anyway, I appreciate it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/pamilabigler Pamila Bigler

    I heard that cows, horses and birds died under the powerful force of these hail stones….. many cars trucks and motor homes were total write-offs!!!

  • http://blairkelly.ca/ Blair Kelly

    I didn’t hear about the cows, horses, or birds, but I don’t doubt they could have been killed by that hail. And yes, many cars and trucks were rendered undrivable!

  • walt

    good to see that these podunks got a wake up call that their little town is not all sunshine and rainbows.

  • http://blairkelly.ca/ Blair Kelly

    I had to look up the word “podunk.” When I was there it seemed a few people already had an idea their town isn’t all sunshine and rainbows (like my brother-in-law’s neighbour who was getting harassed because she had the audacity to say she thinks stores should be open on Sundays). As for those who do think the town is a blessed place – and there are certainly plenty of those, too – I’m not sure evidence is the sort of thing that bothers them much.

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