This past weekend has been filled with thundershowers, wildly swinging temperatures and some of the biggest hail I’ve ever seen. From the normal pea size hail that is often seen to gargantuan hunks of ice the size of a frozen tennis ball. Most were about the size of a golf ball and rather damaging.We happened to be on our way home when the hail began and as the pinging sound of hail grew into bangs it became a little nerve wracking. We made it home safely albeit a little slower than usual and the hail and rain stopped shortly after.
We went outside afterward to take a look at the hailstones and we knew there would be some big ones but there were some HUGE ones. Quite literally the size of my palm. It was too dark out to see what if any damage the house or truck had received and so we waited until morning.
Come morning we looked around the yard, the gazebos canvas top made it although it clearly came close to giving way and needed to be straightened out. The deck and yard was littered in leaves and branches, many flowers have broken stems or are outright flattened but more damage was yet to be seen.
The truck does have numerous dents which will need to be fixed. Thankfully the car was safely tucked away in the garage and it’s not both vehicles now in need of a repair. I also realize after seeing the size of hail in our yard that were lucky no glass was cracked on top of the dents.Our roof also did not fair very well against the hail and numerous shingles have some obvious damage, not sure if it will be enough to claim but a new roof is likely in our near future. Now the eaves they’re going to need replacing without a shadow of a doubt. The hail managed to break a few holes right through them. I know they’re plastic but still that must have been some hailstone.
In the end it was just another storm but this one will take a while to clean up from, if it ever actually stops raining for more than 10 minutes at a time.
