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We're in for a storm - no rain just yet, but it's almost black outside and thunder's rumbling. Ah - the rain just started. I'm hoping we don't have significant hail; my car's in an exposed parking lot and the last time we had significant hail, I had to get the entire top half of my car replaced due to damage.

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In the midst of all the posts about the London bombings, I couldn't tell for a moment if you were making an analogy or talking about actual hail.

It works either way. *g*

Well, if it helps, it's getting lighter and the rain's letting up. ;)

Hooray for your car! (And, um, the world, if you're now making an analogy. *g*)

:D My car seems to be fine, yay! And I do rather hope it can be an analogy. :D

I would very much like to see, up close, hail the size of baseballs...

...from somewhere very, very safe.

During the aforementioned storm, the hail I experienced was only about the size of jawbreakers, but five miles south some friends of mine were gaming and they experienced softball-sized hail. Their cars all got big dents with no window breakage, luckily. The living room of the house they were in has a high ceiling that goes up to the roof - no attic in that part of the house - and a friend reported to me that it sounded like a team of monkeys with hammers.

the hail I experienced was only about the size of jawbreakers

(!) The biggest hail I have experienced is your standard, tiny, quarter inch or so diameter hail. With the jawbreaker hail, where were you?

Note to self: Apparently a house is relatively safe for softball hail. I guess that kind of hail will be so heavy it will mostly just fall down instead of traveling at an angle. Hm, I wonder what terminal velocity is....

Addison, Texas, which is one of the cities that make up the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Addison's over in the North Dallas area, just south of Plano (if you ever get the desire to look it up on a map). The softball-size was in Farmer's Branch, five miles almost due south of Addison, at about the same time. Several days later, when I called in to the insurance company, I said that I was making a hail damage claim, and the rep on the phone immediately said "Ah, you must be from Dallas." :)

The hail might have done some damage to the roof - I don't know for sure - but nothing that would cause any problems for the people inside. They may have moved farther away from the sliding-glass door. :)

Of course if there's a tornado, then softball-size hail could easily be travleing sideways.

:) Sometimes I have nightmares about being threatened and chased by mini-twisters. I wonder if now hail will figure in them?

But by "where" I meant: what shelter, if any, did you have?

XD I took it as a meta-where, apparently. In my apartment - the bottom floor of a two-floor building in the complex. The wind was driving the hail against my window at one point, but the only two windows in the place looked out on my porch area, which was pretty deep, and there was a nearby building that was also taking some of the oomph out of the wind, so it wasn't really doing much but making noise. My car was in an unprotected lot, and got hit pretty good. Saturn's proud about their car bodies not being easy to dent, and from some angles you couldn't tell anything was unusual, but if the light caught it just right, the hood, roof, and trunk lid looked like the surface of the moon.

I knew a girl who'd just gotten a new car. She had covered parking but she was worried about the rear of her car and rushed out to spread a blanket over the trunk of her car when the hail started. Not exactly thinking ahead, that one. She, and her car, ended up just fine, though.

I have a deep, innate fear of tornados and they often feature in my nightmares although I've never experienced one. One evening during my highschool years, I was in town at the library when a storm came trhough and stayed there until it was over. The next morning Dad found a small trail of destruction in our front yard (er, we're out in the country - the front yard is five acres) and decided that a mini-tornado must have touched down.

Actually, WC's is not in Farmer's Branch, but just inside Dallas. There was roof damage and it was a prime time to put in an insurance claim to get it redone (same thing for my house out in richardson). Luckily, the back sliding door is protected by a large overhang/porch area and we could safely watch the hail coming down. The front door was well protected too so we also got to see it beat the tar our of our cars.

OK. "Near Farmer's Branch" then, instead of in FB.

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