# holy shit!!! ping-pong sized hail outside! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-ping-pong-sized-hail-outside/366480 "2006-07-28T23:59:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dracona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Dracona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dracona)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-ping-pong-sized-hail-outside/366480/1 "2006-07-28T23:59:35Z")
Thank GOD that my car is covered and under a carport. Sucks that my neighbor/boss is driving around in his convertible right now. And hope to fuck that I dont lose a window! _ducks and covers_ ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-ping-pong-sized-hail-outside/366480/2 "2006-07-29T00:02:56Z")
So, uh, where are you? ---
**Author:** ![Dracona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Dracona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dracona)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-ping-pong-sized-hail-outside/366480/3 "2006-07-29T00:06:15Z")
> [@DooWahDiddy](#): > > So, uh, where are you? :peeks out: Florida. 60+ mph winds. Thunderstorm, no mention of tornadic activity, but um, seems like tornadoes, huh? This is a first in my year and a half in Florida. :hides again: ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-ping-pong-sized-hail-outside/366480/4 "2006-07-29T00:13:31Z")
Why **Dracona**! I’m suprised at you! Don’t you know that every time it hails, it’s just the Angels sh#tting? 😃😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dracona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Dracona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dracona)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-ping-pong-sized-hail-outside/366480/5 "2006-07-29T00:17:38Z")
oh, haha … that actually _was_ the train! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-ping-pong-sized-hail-outside/366480/6 "2006-07-29T00:18:18Z")
Is there any brimstone? Call me when theres brimstone. ---
**Author:** ![Dracona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Dracona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dracona)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-ping-pong-sized-hail-outside/366480/7 "2006-07-29T00:18:42Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Why **Dracona**! > I’m suprised at you! > Don’t you know that every time it hails, it’s just the Angels sh#tting? > > 😃😃😃😃 _laughs_ well they should be done in about 12 minutes, according to the interweb. ---
**Author:** ![Dracona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Dracona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dracona)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-ping-pong-sized-hail-outside/366480/8 "2006-07-29T00:37:47Z")
looks like it passed. i don’t see any local damage and it looks like we were tornado free. Thank you guys for making this storm a funny and entertaining experience! ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-ping-pong-sized-hail-outside/366480/9 "2006-07-29T03:08:49Z")
It hailed like that here in Kansas City a month or so ago. It happened on a night that I’d taken an Ambien, but hadn’t gone to bed yet. I ended up going outside in my pajamas, my rain boots, and a hoodie, then collected the largest hailstones I could find and took several dozen pictures of them with my dad’s digital camera. The next morning I had some nice bruises from hailstone hits and barely any memory of the hailstorm. I don’t take Ambien anymore. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-ping-pong-sized-hail-outside/366480/10 "2006-07-29T04:08:10Z")
You were on your computer during a hailstorm? Maybe I’m paranoid, but mine goes off at the first hint of thunder or anything else stormlike. The last time I saw hail it wasn’t very big (maybe marble-sized), but I was caught out in my car during it. Scary. A couple of years later a mechanic asked me if I knew about the dents on the roof of my car – had I been in a hailstorm? It took me a couple of minutes to remember that I had but not for a long time. Yep, I have some faint dents there.