A recent video circulating on social media shows how the extreme cold broke the windows of a car in Alberta, Canada, scaring the people inside. Where they began to cover with pieces of cloth to prevent scattered pieces of glass.
GIMME SHELTER: Footage taken from inside a car shows passengers ducking into a hatch for cover as shards of hail smashed through car windows in Alberta, Canada.
Grapefruit-sized hail has been reported in the region. https://t.co/zspJT6OMRL pic.twitter.com/Pg99XmME9h
— ABC News (@ABC) August 3, 2022
According to CBC Canada, weather conditions worsened significantly in individual provinces of Canada, with severe storms and extreme cold breaking the Canadian record of 123 mm.
A recent Bank of Canada survey, which asked Canada’s largest insurance companies about their top concerns, found climate change to be at the top. This weekend’s hail storm in Alberta shows why. pic.twitter.com/rlbWz2NGV8
— Climate Lens (@climate_lens) August 2, 2022
The cold storm has covered large areas of Canada since the beginning of this week and caused traffic damage.
Straight winds in Trucho, Alberta! #Storm 9:20 p.m pic.twitter.com/ihuoHnKVgI
— Braydon MoreSo (@BraydonMoreSo) August 2, 2022
In the video, Canadian citizen Matt Perry appears on a main road at 6pm on Monday, August 1, just 10 minutes away from leaving.
When he had to stop in response to the hail, he was surprised to find his windshield shattered inside and outside the car.
In an interview with one of the local websites, he said: The windshield of my car was completely broken… I was afraid to break the glass.
But he was able to pull over to the side of the road and wait out the storm, which lasted between 10 and 15 minutes, he said.
About 34 vehicles were damaged and several people were slightly injured that day, according to Canadian police, and the storm caused at least three accidents.
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