“That Saturday, I was trapped in a stopper near the Saint-Cloud bridge when a hail rain of incredible violence fell, says Marie-Laure. I thought the windows were going to explode and my car was riddled with dozens of impacts. Like this resident of Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine), more than 61,000 people had to deposit their vehicle at the garage following the storm which affected Paris and its region on May 3. Assessment of this ice flood: 334 million euros in damage.
Where, yesterday, we mentioned hailstones of the size of a ping-pong ball, it is no longer rare today to see victims photograph in the palm of their hand ice cubes like tennis balls or … grapefruits. Like Sunday, June 2, when specimens sometimes 8 cm in diameter fell on the Loire and Saône-et-Loire.
