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Kali

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5. partly it is because that is not a masonry chimney

Reply to stopdiggin (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 30, 2023, 11:06 AM

Jul 2023

it is just metal tubing inside a stucco box. but still, that is a shocking failure. I wonder if the "securely attached" antenna helped catch the wind < masonry chimney, likely to stand after entire building is gone.

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Short hailstorm, about twenty minutes, Friday July 28 [View all] Ptah Jul 2023 OP

!!! Kali Jul 2023 #1

15 minutes of weather, once a week. Ptah Jul 2023 #4

that ain't normal - did you have 70mph winds as well? -(nt)- stopdiggin Jul 2023 #2

The wind was fierce. The marble-sized hail was painful. Ptah Jul 2023 #3

partly it is because that is not a masonry chimney Kali Jul 2023 #5

yep. that's the equivalent of a Christmas stopdiggin Jul 2023 #6

It's a stucco duplex, circa 1990 I think. Ptah Jul 2023 #7

what a beast Kali Jul 2023 #8