Holiday in the Snowy Mountains? Nope. This is Alice Springs.

By ERWIN CHLANDA
 
A 10 minute hailstorm dumped masses of ice on the western part of the Ilparpa suburb at about 3:45pm today.
 
It covered the rural blocks in small white hailstones and made the drains run a banker.
 
Karen Stanton, a caravan holidaymaker with her husband Daryl, says: “It was a sheet of hail. I was scared.”
 
The couple from Wodonga, Victoria, are camped on a block in Greatorex Road.
 
Last year their caravan suffered $20,000 worth of damage hail damage in Casino, NSW. “I thought, oh no, not again,” said Ms Stanton.
 
Luckily, the hailstones today were small and did no damage.
 
They phoned friends camped at Blatherskite Park, about five kilometers away, to see how they were faring: “What hailstorm, they answered,” says Ms Stanton.
 
PICTURED AT TOP: The Stantons and Cyril Veleff from Bunbury in WA getting ready for “damper in the snow”.
 
 
 

 

 

 
AT LEFT: Sharon Veleff was in her caravan when the hail pelted down.