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Softball sized hail just west of here. Fortunately for my car, it was only about 2-3cm in diameter by the time the storm front got to my neighborhood.
Addendum: Parked next to my car at work was a pickup truck that must've been out where the softballs were falling...it looked like someone had worked it over with a mace. Covered in dents to the point of looking like a golf ball, windshield shattered and sagging inward on the safety glass plastic layers, etc.
Addendum: Parked next to my car at work was a pickup truck that must've been out where the softballs were falling...it looked like someone had worked it over with a mace. Covered in dents to the point of looking like a golf ball, windshield shattered and sagging inward on the safety glass plastic layers, etc.
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It makes me wonder how the future solar/hybrid cars will handle hail, as in most models and add-on options proposed the panels are on the roof and trunk areas, and sometimes the hood. My personal solar array is old style polycarbonate, but I seriously doubt even the new kinds would hold up well to being whacked with the equivalent of a ball peen hammer. A cracked solar roof is a heck of a lot more then just bodywork.