Walker: The male runners were all found in the fetal position holding their testicles while shouting over and over "THE PAIN! THE PAIN!".




Knows about the pain.

namatad: your mother never told you to not play outside when it is raining?

still, photo looks PAINFUL

if only there were trees or "buildings" of some type
some form of shelter

If only that was mentioned in the article.

FTA: The students found a nearby empty house to hide from the storm in, said Crawford.

HAW HAW

That's it. I'm never exercising again.

/bring on the cheetos, biatches!

Gott damn, that looks like it hurt!

Serves 'em right for going outside! Fortunately for me, I never engage in such dangerous activities any more.

They hid from a storm in a ditch? A ditch?

I'm using a Serifless font, so I initial misread the headline as "God presses 'smite' button over Lohan" and got my hopes up.

Damn.

I woulda dove under that tree in the pic, but that is just me.

Hailstorms can come on very quickly, even on days when the weather looks not so bad. I can definitely see where if a deluge of 1 inch hailstones started falling that you'd only have time to dive into a ditch.

// I'd also try to use the girl as an umbrella, but that's just me ...

I'll store this one in the "excuses not to exercise" bank.

/put on a shirt 'mo

Ral: They hid from a storm in a ditch? A ditch?

I'm guessing they thought it was the beginning of a twister, so they decided to jump for the nearest cover.

brap: namatad: if only there were trees or "buildings" of some type
some form of shelter

You obviously have never been to Grinnell, Iowa.

I have! My alma mater. And yeah, there are plenty of places out there where a ditch is going to be your only option for shelter. Hope everyone there is ok.

Run indoors like the rest of us who pay far too much for our gym memberships.

That must have been a hail of a predicament to be in.

Pics, for those of us who have overzealous web filters? (but for some reason still let me get here)

Ral They hid from a storm in a ditch? A ditch?

I'm guessing that they were trying to get to low ground because of lightning. Although lightning tends to flow along the ground downhill once it hits, so that may not have been the absolute best idea.

/was once told to seek "lowest high point in the area." Not sure if that was good advice, either.

I-O-W-A

Idiots Out Wandering Around

When I hear smite, I think lightning. All they got was God's aoe

/still sucks though...

Keep on runnin, jagoff.

that's more the "Plink" button than the "Smite" button.

THIS is the Smite button -

That must have been a hail of a predicament to be in.

You got stones posting a comment like that!

They must have been running in the road instead of on the sidewalk...

dogdaze: No, I'm thinking God pushed the "hurt" button. Had He hit "smite," lightning would have taken care of the job.

Up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-A-B-Hurt summons 'Meteorological Torment', does it?

/oblig

Didn't Iowa legalize gay marriage or something?

/Yeah, this is for that

Not a problem, they should have run faster.

coming for your runners



/hot like eternal damnation

jabelar: Hailstorms can come on very quickly, even on days when the weather looks not so bad. I can definitely see where if a deluge of 1 inch hailstones started falling that you'd only have time to dive into a ditch.

// I'd also try to use the girl as an umbrella, but that's just me ...

Yeah I would push my shaft up and pop her open just like an umbrella...good call.

Take that Idawahio!

From TFA: Storm spotters in the area reported 1 to 1.5 inch hail.

What's that in golf balls?

Looks like there was poison ivy in the ditch...

Almost as bad as:

/Hot as Top Gear

Two years ago we were hit with a hail storm weilding chunks of frozen death about raquetball size (google it kids, it used to be a 'rad' sport). Totalled my car and took out the back window. On the plus side I got a nice check from the insurance, my rates went down since my car is uninsurable due to the totality, AND I get to drive a car that looks like a Titleist.

/been through several tornados
//hail was easily nine times as scary

Karen must have called.

angry_scientist: When I hear smite, I think lightning. All they got was God's aoe

/still sucks though...

Who's got a Caddyshack pic of the priest?

Australia laughs at your puny hails

justanotherfarkinfarker: I woulda dove under that tree in the pic, but that is just me.

Is "dove" something like "funky chicken"?

was one of the runners named gordon?



/can't find the weather-control panel from the movie
//it DID have a hail button

Apparently the smite button is no longer as effective as it was in biblical times...

i got caught in a hail storm is the new i ran into a door knob.