Hail damage Weld county, Colorado (1986)
	Natural hazards are many and prevalent across the West. This crop of corn, in one of the most agriculturally productive areas in the West (outside of California), was savaged by a hailstorm that, in this case, literally did produce "golf-ball sized hail." It also damaged a number of cars, and took out a new car dealership five miles away. On the Front Range of Colorado, storms of this severity are hardly unknown, but they occur with great irregularity, and are difficult in the extreme to predict. Their economic cost can be great.
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