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Two local ad executives got more than they bargained for when they traveled to a trade show in Salt Lake City a couple weeks ago.
The sky was bright when David Swaebe of Mullen, Wenham, Mass., and Jennifer Grady of O’Neal & Prelle, Hartford, Conn., arrived in Utah on Aug. 11 for the Outdoor Retailers Summer Market. A few hours later, as Grady rested in her hotel room and Swaebe ran across the street to grab lunch at a deli, the sky darkened, winds picked up and hail began to fall.
“There were trees folding in half,” Swaebe said.

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