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Well, I guess we caught some of the worst of it. Carrie and I were both in Irving very close to DFW when the skies opened up. Carrie was out in the yard and I had just pulled up in the truck when the first one hit the ground.
I told Carrie to head for the house and I got trapped in the truck. She made it to the porch but there was no way I could get out of the truck.
When it was over it looked as if it had snowed here. The hail was anywhere from just larger than a golf ball to just smaller than a tennis ball. Luckily there were not many large ones and most were the golf ball sized ones. The car and truck took a heck of a beating. The car has more in number and the dents are much larger than the ones on the truck. I guess the metal is thicker on the truck ???
I would say there are about forty to fifty dings on the car and about thirty or so on the truck. The ones one the car are everywhere, even in the curves of the fenders where as the ones on the truck are mainly on the the flat surfaces. They are both insured but I still don't want them torn up.
I know they have those dent repair guys but how many would they fix before just replacing the hoods? I think fixing the ones on the top of the truck and replacing the hood may be the way to go on that one but the car is another story. It is beat up from one end to the other. They are just scattered out all over the car, everywhere.
The roof on mother in laws house got beat up as well. I got up there today and it beat the shingles down to the felt paper. Well on half of the roof it did, the front side only got a few hits. The back will need replacing. Some houses here had the shingles torn off down to the wood. I guess everyone has not looked at the roofs to much but the wood is showing on about a third of the houses here.
I do not know this first hand but I hear DFW had some airplane damage. They did not say the extent of the damage. I really don't know anymore than that.
IT was a close call for us here, but Thank God no one around here was injured. I have not heard of any pets getting hit either so it could have been much worse considering the size of the hailstones.
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