We went to pick up our eldest daughter from her friends sleepover just 2 ks from home just before the storm hit, I looked at the BOM radar just 15 minutes before we got back into the car to come home and it looked like the storm had split and went around, as we got in the car, we can hear this almighty roar coming, like a freight train, the noise was unreal, just as we all waved goodbye and started the car, a single solitary golf ball size chunk of ice smashes down right beside the car, time to go, just as I got onto the street it hit and was big, not lots of hail , just big random one's, I traveled slowly up the street, would it lesson the damage by stopping, or am I better off driving out of it I asked myself?
There was no where to hide undercover, I chose to drive but slowly due to the fact it was hitting the windscreen that hard I was worried it was going to smash, after about 200 meters the hail radically reduced it size, then I hot footed home just in case we got hit twice by the same storm cell, anyways, damage done, dents all over car looks like a big red golf ball, the noise the hail was making on the car was just horrendous, second only to my wifes swearing as we where in her car, phone time with the insurance broker tomorrow
Shane
