Hail, hail, the gang's all here.

03/25/2009 hail welcome
Originally uploaded by LillianB

I decided to go to Half Price Books after work and blow my coupons. It started hailing while I was inside, but it wasn't too bad. It wasn't until I got into my neighborhood that I saw real damage--car windshields busted, trees thrashed, etc. My complex got hit pretty bad--lots of car damage and tons of building damage (windows broken, screens punched through, gutters down). Glad I wasn't here for it...

The picture is taken from my doorway. My neighbor's door is maybe 10 feet away? And yes, that's her welcome mat buried in ice. I put a tarp on a neighbor's car that had had the entire back windshield blasted out--she even had hail on her dashboard!

The cats were very freaked out when I got home, and had to tell me all about the monsters that had been throwing ice cubes at the building. Ripley has no interest in going outside for once.