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The sudden, percussive crackle came as Barb Berlin was standing in the garage of her farmhouse near Inman, Nebraska. “I thought it was a gun,” she said. Then came a streak of white. She realized the sound wasn’t gunfire but hail. A fist-sized hailstone had pounded the tin roof on Berlin’s garage. Soon, others were leaving softball-shaped craters in the hood of her Ford Mustang, which was parked outside. “It was so loud and it was scary.
, thunderstorms have been responsible for about $61 billion in economic losses, according to Bowen. Hail was likely responsible for between $31 billion and $49 billion of that total. In the same period, tropical storms and flooding together have accounted for $14 billion in losses.
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