5 minutes from runway, no direct access to taxiways.
Correct. Hail can be a real problem in Central Texas. It’s not an everyday thing, but you can usually count on a few times a year, and sometimes big enough to cause damage.
New Mexico also gets bad hail at times, just before my daughter transferred to New Mexico Tech they got hit with softball size hail which damaged several of the buildings and lots of cars
Largest I’ve seen was softball sized in Colorado. It wrecked cars, tore siding off of houses, and stripped smaller branches from trees. I was up in the Rocky Mountains at the time for Air Force survival training and we had to take shelter under the bigger pines.
My oldest son was at New Mexico Tech and on the phone with us when it happened, it was crazy. It looked like winter but also a disaster zone as if the building, cars, trees, etc.; had been shelled during war. And yes they were softball sized, I had never seen any hail that size before. So many cars were just destroyed, and the University buildings with nearly hundred year old tile roofs disintegrated and windows almost all broken as well.
yeah, all the cars in the parking lot were totalled. I rode my bicycle to work that day. had 3-4" of hail to ride through on the way home. Miraculously, The worst of it ended 100 yards before I got to my house. I had very little damage.
It provide EMRTC with lots cars to test things with
I live on my airport in East Texas (FAA ID : TA37). We usually get two or three hailstorms max a year here in summer but I've never seen hail larger than a quarter in the last 13 years. I also have a couple of hangars for rent is anyone needs one. www.facebook.com/VacaMooAirport/
...or worst.
