Michelle Clarke launches into her "kapooya! kapooya!" account of hailstorms on her home in south Texas. Picture: YouTube Source: Supplied
A STORM victim in the US has become the latest internet viral sensation after giving a hilariously exuberant description of hailstones slamming into her home.
Michelle Clarke's apartment in Brookshire, southeast Texas, was battered by storms late last week and when local television reporters turned up, Ms Clarke launched into a lively rant about the size of the hailstones.
"Man those jokers were big. Size of a quarter, doggone!'' she told one journalist.
"It was like - kapooya! kapooya!
"Oh boy, hail just came in and I opened my door and I looked out my door.
"I ran to the restroom and I called my mama to see was she alright.''
Footage of the interview has gained millions of views online and spawned dozens of "mashup'' remixes, including an autotune version with Ms Clarke's words set to an R&B soundtrack.
News interviews are proving to be fertile ground for viral videos.
Kimberly Wilkins, better known as Sweet Brown, became an internet star last year after describing an apartment fire in Oklahoma to local reporters.
One of the phrases she used: "Ain't nobody got time for that!'' spawned dozens of autotune remixes and copycat versions.
Antoine Dodson became an internet sensation after ranting to a news television crew about an intruder who broke into his sister's bedroom in Huntsville, Alabama, in 2010.
And of course Australia had its very own "Chk Chk Boom!'' clip back in 2009.
That video featured reveller Clare Werbeloff, then aged 19, describing a shooting in Sydney's Kings Cross nightclub district to local reporters.
Ms Werbeloff later admitted she fabricated her account - but not before the soundbite went viral online.
