Hail!!

The day after we bought the truck, we experienced our very first West Texas hail storm. It was nasty! Hail ranging in size from 1/2 inch to golfball came down for a really long time.

By and large, we got out without serious damage. I took a large hail stone to the eye while opening the garage door to move the car inside, and the truck, which does not fit in the garage, has a chip in the windshield, which we're going to have to fix, but otherwise, we made it out just fine. Many other people fared a lot worse than we did, despite the fact that we were in the most severe part of the storm.

Some pics:

Beginning of the storm:

After a few minutes:

It knocked all the leaves off our tree:


This is where it ran off the roof:


A close-up of some of the smaller hail stones... Thak said his hand was about to freeze off!!


Outside the front door:



A bit of the lawn, plus the street, which was more like a river: