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Old 18-09-2011, 02:40 AM
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I was just reading those odds Peter and found one that relates to me.

Hail. The odds a person will be injured by hail in a year are 1 in 5,114,000. According to the National Weather Service, 718 people were injured by hail between 1995 and 2007. And the number killed? Just five. The odds a person will be killed by hail in a year, then, are 1 in 734,400,000.

I was riding my motorbike home with an open face helmet a few years ago when a hail storm started. I actually copped a lump in the mouth resulting in a split lip.

So I am one of those people in the 1 in 5,000,000 category.
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