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Toilet rained giant hailstones to fill building
An Austrian man is demanding substantial damages after he
was blasted off the toilet when hundreds of thousands of hail stones exploded
out of it.
Martin Bierbauer said: "I heard the pipes rumbling a bit, and suddenly
hailstones the size of golf balls started exploding out of the toilet like it
was a popcorn machine.
"There was an avalanche of ice that quickly filled the toilet, then the
entire flat, and eventually the entire building."
"I ran down the stairs with the hailstones following me, and other
residents did the same."
Another resident, Silvia Streit, said: "I grabbed a board and put it over
the toilet, but the pressure was so great, I ended up sitting on the board as
the hail flowed through the flat and down the stairs."
Freak weather has led to temperatures of over 35 degrees centigrade in Austria
which a few days later plunge to near zero as freak hail storms batter the
country.
The incident at the block of flats in Eisenstadt, the capital of the province
of Burgenland, was caused by hailstones flooding into a local drain during a
torrential downpour, which became blocked.
Local council spokesman Wolfgang Leinner said: "The pressure was too
great, the hailstones had to go somewhere and they came out through the toilets
it seems."
Austrian Times
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