The Nation - News from Aug. 15, 1985
Road crews used snowplows to clear highways of golf-ball-size hail that piled into three-foot drifts and killed livestock in Phillips County, Kan., a sheriff’s spokesman said. Hail, high water and downed trees forced the closing of an eight-mile stretch of Kansas Highway 9. “It’s a no-man’s-land of hail,” said Tad Felton, a Phillipsburg radio reporter. “The water was so high over that roadway that when it receded, it left a residue of hail five, six, seven feet deep.”
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