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Originally Posted by aerohead
No mention of them so far. If they parked themselves, I'd like to know what the leading edges look like. I've seen the blades on the ground up in Gainesville, Texas, at a trans-shipment storage facility along Interstate-35. They're extremely thick epoxy-composite. I can't imagine that 'any' hailstone, regardless of size could 'touch' them. Don't know.
The turbines at Jacksboro, Texas, that went through the tornado did nothing to the turbines there. Often, the height of the supercells that spawn tornadoes, also produce hail ( it's a hundred below zero F up there ).
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There's no way they were hit with hail that big and suffered no damage especially if running. Just because they're still running Monday morning doesn't mean everything is fine. Some of the blades are likely cracked. Cracks will allow dirt and water in, small cracks turn into big cracks then before long the local land fill is up to their eyeballs in wind turbine blades.
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