By Ilan Hulkower
A severe Texan hail storm damaged thousands of solar panels at a Fort Bend County farm causing neighbors to fear potential chemical leakage from the panels, ABC 13 reported.
The freak and severe hail storm hit the farm and its environs on March 16, causing massive property damage throughout the affected area, the outlet reported.
“The hailstorm we experienced Saturday morning was unimaginable,” Nick Kaminski, a Ford Bend County resident, told the outlet. “We’ve never seen anything like it in our lifetime.” Kaminski’s own house suffered damage from the wind, causing the roof to come off, which was followed by hail, ABC 13 reported.
Kaminski also expressed concern over the damage to a nearby solar farm to the outlet. “They look like somebody took a shotgun and blasted it into the air and let the pellets fall down and shatter holes all in them,” Kaminski said about the condition of the farm and its solar panels, ABC 13 reported.
A video displaying an aerial of the solar farm after the hail storm does appear to show widespread damage. It was tweeted out by Corey Thompson.
Kaminski shared with ABC 13 that he was worried some of the chemicals in the solar panel might seep into the ground and the water, causing health problems. “That’s what we take a shower with, we drink with,” he told ABC 13. “It could be in our water now.”
The solar panels could be made of a chemical compound called cadmium telluride, a toxic substance that if in contact with a human could cause kidney, lung, gastrointestinal, heart and skin problems, according to the National Institute of Health (NIH)’s National Library of Medicine. The substance is listed as an “Irritant” and an “Environmental Hazard” by the NIH.
Ilan Hulkower is a contributor at The Daily Caller.
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What a travesty, and terrible waste of $$$$!!!
I don’t believe ANYTING that we are told by “experts” about these Chinese-made and tweaked solar panels. Saddest part about this is that the taxpayers in Texas, and everywhere they are installed, will ultimately bear the cost of these, twice in this case, so that the touchy-feely greenie geniuses can boast that we’re “saving the planet”….. At all cost, literally!!!!