On 17 Dec 2005 02:45:11 GMT, Blanche wrote:

(ducking & running *real fast!*)

move to warm places in the south of the US?

(and now hiding....)

I'm in Denver, have a hangar, but it's cold out there! But at
least I don't get hail damage.

Hmmmm... You new to Denver?
Some years back I was taking my wife out to visit my daughter who
lived in Boulder at the time. There were some towering Q that had
slid off the mountains right on top of Boulder, Denver, and even
Lyman.

They had a tornado at Lyman, baseball to softball size hail in both
Denver and Boulder. It actually splintered roof boards under shingles
and damaged millions of dollars worth of cars. It took the wind
screen out of one side on a Beech 1900 departing Stapleton. (I think
that may have been the last year of two of operation there.

We ended up getting 90 degreed once, but other than a few bumps it
went well. As we were leaving Jefco in the rental car, I looked up
to see a small plane "spit out" the side of one of those big black
clouds. He wasn't right side up although they did recover nicely.

One guy with a fairly new light twin got caught in it and although he
was able to land safely the airplane was nearly totaled.

They accused us of bringing Michigan weather along with us. I don't
think the visibility made it much above 10 miles for the entire week
we were there.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com