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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Once In A Lifetime Borneo Hailstorm


In 1968, looking out of a Dyak longhouse's window in Indonesia’s central Borneo, I watched kids eagerly picking things falling from the dark sky as if they were candy. They were pieces of ice nearly the size of golf balls. No one among those people had ever known such things.
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En 1968, au centre de Bornéo, en Indonésie,  j’ai observé d’une fenêtre d’une longue maison Dayak, des enfants se jeter sur des choses tombant du ciel comme si elles étaient des bonbons. C’étaient des boules de glace presqu’aussi grosses que des balles de golf. Personne ici n’avait jamais connu tel évènement.