Sounds like an awesome storm.
That sound of large hail as it comes toward you is like nothing you'll ever hear. Especially spooky when there is no rain with it to soften the roar.
I was in the middle of the Brighton hailstorm/tornado Dec 16th 1980.
http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emadisaste...e?OpenDocument
They had to get dozers in to clear the roads of ice, it was feet deep. I helped out with the cleanup and it was shocking. After the hail destroyed the roofs, ice filled the wall cavities, and the internal walls swelled inwards like potbellys, some actually split spilling ice everywhere. Very dangerous concidering all the electrical wiring inside the walls. My math teacher down the road, his chooks were pulverized, no feathers left on them. The poor horse had huge bruises on her back and VW Beetles had flat roofs.
One of the strangest things I noticed was that one house would be wrecked, roof collapsed, no windows left, and next door would have only 1 window or tile broken. Like nature was picking houses at random for destruction.
The individual hailstones never got bigger than a softball, but the conglomerates of smaller stones were much bigger than that.
I've been nervous of storms ever since.
