Against driving hailstorms from those favoring repeal, he has continued to support his reform in Massachusetts because he knows where stakeholders stand.

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The U.S. Weather Bureau started reporting tornadoes, thunderstorms, hailstorms, lightning and high winds at a few experimental locations across the United States in spring 1943.

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As the elbow linking Louisiana and Oklahoma, Texas is a target for all kinds of crazy weather, from hurricanes around Houston and Galveston to hailstorms in Dallas to tornadoes on the western plains.

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