MickeyD mentioned the hail storm we had yesterday afternoon in Austin.
I was still at work, and the hail storm arrived about 10 minutes after I shot Mike an email about a tornado warning for North East Austin. No good deed goes unpunished...
As I'm heading home, in rush hour traffic, I got stuck in the hail storm from Hell -- softball sized hail. Seriously.
The sound was deafening.
My rear windshield looks like someone strafed it with a machine gun. In other words, the hail went clear through the windshield. I started getting worried when I was being showered with broken glass from the windshields...
Every single body panel looks like an angry woman went at it with a baseball bat. The hail sheared off both my rear view mirrors, and also shattered my front windshield, and the rear light shields.
As usual with Texas hailstorms, it was bright and sunny 30 minutes later. And the storm was localized -- at my house, and Mike's house, the hail was only pea or marble sized. Go figure.
I was still at work, and the hail storm arrived about 10 minutes after I shot Mike an email about a tornado warning for North East Austin. No good deed goes unpunished...
As I'm heading home, in rush hour traffic, I got stuck in the hail storm from Hell -- softball sized hail. Seriously.
The sound was deafening.
My rear windshield looks like someone strafed it with a machine gun. In other words, the hail went clear through the windshield. I started getting worried when I was being showered with broken glass from the windshields...
Every single body panel looks like an angry woman went at it with a baseball bat. The hail sheared off both my rear view mirrors, and also shattered my front windshield, and the rear light shields.
As usual with Texas hailstorms, it was bright and sunny 30 minutes later. And the storm was localized -- at my house, and Mike's house, the hail was only pea or marble sized. Go figure.
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