What’s On My Mind

Hail Damage

// March 28th, 2009 // pictures

Austin had the benefit of some much needed rain this week. Unfortunately, one of these storms that came through at rush hour had a good bit of hail attached. 

Dave was driving home from work in Northwest Austin when the hail struck. There was a wreck in front of him and the traffic had completely stopped, so he was stuck like a duck on the highway. He called me when it was hailing on him to warn me that it was coming my way, and the sound of it was amazing. I couldn’t believe how loud it was! It sounded like one of those horror movies where the Zombies can’t get into your locked car so they take hammers to it and start beating it to death.

I lucked out and my carpool buddy and I escaped the hail. However, it did hail quite a bit at our house and I’m sorry that I didn’t get good pictures of that. There were tons of golfball-sized ice cubes sitting in our grass when I got home. It was quite a site. (Yet again, I’m sooooo thankful that we can park in the garage!)

I took a few pictures of Dave’s car when I got home for posterity’s sake. Then Dave decided to get in there and take a few artsy pics while I was away at choir practice. 

Here are my pics:

       

Here are a few of his:

   
                 

We already replaced the windows and are probably going to have the car totalled on Sunday. It’s old and has an old egg stain on the paint, so it’s not in great shape on the exterior. Even with the potmarks all over it, Dave is still determined to drive it for now. I think he should turn it into an art car, but he’s not keen on the idea.