What the Hail!?! (Anthony: car, weather, water)

[Turtle_Mom]

it's amazing how it differs so much, just a few miles apart!

i never saw hail that was marble size, but it was bigger than a pea. short lived though. no power outage, just a 3-4 brown outs, which i hate!

i wanted more rain!

[scuba steve]

Originally Posted by Bowie

The meteorologist on KENS 5 said that the biggest hail was in North Central SA, which is where Deerfield is and my neighborhood is. I had hail over an inch in size. The only damage I had, AFAIK, is from where it punched a hole in a piece of plastic patio furniture. I noticed many of my neighbors were scrambling to get their vehicles into the garage. Mine were already there.

The hail made a serious racket banging against our west-facing windows. We stayed out of the room with those windows for a few minutes because we were afraid it would break them.

I didn't see any obvious damage in my neighborhood, driving through it this morning.

Hmmm... ok. I'll have to walk around some when I return to TX on Friday. If I see a lot of leaves and twigs on the ground (and holes punched in the leaves of my raspberry plants ) I guess that means there was large hail at my place.

To be honest, I don't even know what a hail-damaged roof looks like anyway. I'm not worried about cars because they both live indoors.

[majormadmax]

I just walked out to check my car (it is dark when I go to work in the morning), and no hail damage whatsoever. I remember a few years ago, you saw hail-damaged cars all over the place...roofs and hoods looking like someone took a ball-peen hammer to them.

Plus, this morning everyone's trash cans were knocked over. I had to go a couple doors down to find the lid for one of mine. I am sure there will be trash blowing around all over the place today!

But it sure is a nice day out there!

Cheers! M2

[Pontifikate]

Originally Posted by sapphire

I didn't lose power, amazingly enough. My alarm clock resets itself if I do, but the other clocks aren't flashing at me this morning, so I know it stayed on.

My wife goes into work around 2:30 AM, she told me she changed the clocks. I guess the power couldn't of been out that long.

[Newk]

No power outage in 78217. Thank God got my car in the garage in time

[Buffyfan]

Here across from Churchill HS, we had golf-ball sized hail.

[temptation001]

The lightning was great. The hail was great. The rain was wonderful.
Around the downtown area I get hail about every 6 to 7 months usually.
No damage to any ones' property either. So lucky!

[majormadmax]

I just washed the Toyota, and the water spots were murder! There were no dents as far as I can tell; but I could swear I had some slight scratches that weren't there before. That is the problem with a black car, it looks great when it is clean, but they are hard to keep nice!

Cheers! M2

[Scamp]

Originally Posted by majormadmax

We just got hammered with a hail storm! I ran outside to throw some old horse blankets I have on my car to protect my thin-skinned little Toyota from dents.

Anyone else get it? This is the first time I can recall a hail storm here since we moved back in 2005. When we lived here last (1999-2002), we experienced a few of them. Back then I could get both cars in the garage, but now with the Jeep and an extra motorcycle, there's no room!

Cheers! M2

The same play was going on over here, only I donned a helmet and it was old army blankets. Oh, and the plants are wintering in both sides of the garage.

It was primarily quarter sized, with a few pieces surpassing a golf ball. I had a couple fingers caught between the car and a hailstone, sucker stung.

Is winter over now? 'cuz it sure feels like it is.

[majormadmax]

Scamp

Your old army blankets are probably the same thing that I call horse blankets. Green, wool, itchy and with a 'US' emblem on them, right?

Cheers! M2