Last night the fog was the thickest I have ever seen. It wasn't like ground fog at all, it was like being in a cloud that came down from the sky. This morning we had really large hail again the largest I have ever seen. Luckily no damage and no tornadoes. Although our local news is down so who knows what happened to the rest of the state. (This is Northern Michigan)
The hail looks edible! 
Hope everything is business as usual there. 
It doesn’t look like it caused much damage here. A few years back my tiny hometown got smacked by hail this size with 50 mile an hour winds. I would have been working in town that day but I was on vacation in Alaska. It missed our house and because I was on vacation it even missed my car. The town (without even a stoplight) had tens of millions of dollars in damage. Siding was destroyed along with roofs, windows were blown out everywhere, cars windows were even smashed and of course any vehicle outside was instantly turned into what looked like a golf ball (dimples). My parents owned the grocery store in town and it even blew out their front glass doors and they were so thick that I would not have thought it possible.
Wow, they must have been big hailstones to cause that much damage?
i grew up in WI and i miss stuff like that (not the cold though). the weather in northern CA is boring!
I guess they were about this big with some real whopper tossed in and the winds were just incredible. My mom said that when the windows blew out people were hiding between the grocery isles and the hail was hitting the wall on the other side over their heads. It was literally horizontal with the ground.
I know what you mean. I lived in Salinas Ca. for a decade or so. When I moved back to Mi. we had a huge thunderstorm and I was all smiles watching the lightning and listening to the thunder. My wife who grew up in Salinas had never seen or heard anything like it and was terrified. Now she is used to it (still hates the cold) but likes the storms. It was her that ran out and grabbed the hail in the pics.
Luckily I am far enough North that we don’t seem to get tornadoes and unlike Cali no earthquakes. I was in the Loma Prieta one and that was something else. It started out no big deal then got really violent fast. When I got outside cars were still bouncing around.
That sounds pretty terrifying. People have been killed by hailstones too. 
Awww, how cute… baby hail. Real hail is larger than baseballs. I’ve seen 6 inch hailstones… with nasty spikes. I’ve seen hail come through rooftops.
Baby hail!!! Made me LOL :bigsmile:
Well they say everything is bigger in Texas. I don’t know about that though. I have been there a few times and the men all seemed a lot shorter than me. :Sp Is it something they put in the water, keeps them all under six foot?
LOOKS bigger
OHH, well that explains a lot.
My son was 6’ when he was 12. Guys 6’6” and over 300lbs are fairly regular. In rodeos, the calf roping competition usually has talented calves that tie their own feet up to keep the cowboys from having to fall on em. 
In bull riding, the bulls seem extra fierce cause they want the cowboys to know they’re BULLS! J) We even have girls that look down on 6 footers.
All them short one’s you saw? Must’ve been the Yanks avoiding the snow.
Texaspyro isn’t kidding about the hail stones though, my brother-in-law had a small airplane that he kept at the airport about 2 miles from here. It came a storm with hailstones so large and so solid (frozen so fast the ice is clear) it punched 2 holes in the wing and broke his windshield out of the airplane. The holes in the wings were almost 3” across. About 2 weeks ago, my brother (an LVN doing home health care) said the storm that came through was blowing large hail that broke 3 windows out in the house where he was taking care of a child.
A joke:
A Texas man bought a round of drinks for everyone in the bar, announcing that his wife had just given birth to “a typical Texas baby boy weighing 20 pounds.”
Congratulations showered him from all around, and many exclamations of “Wow!” were heard. A woman fainted due to sympathy pains.
Two weeks later, he returned to the bar. The bartender said, “Say, you’re the father of the Texas baby who weighed 20 pounds at birth. How much does he weigh now?”
The proud father answered, “Fifteen pounds.”
The bartender was puzzled. “Why? What happened? He weighed 20 pounds at birth?”
The Texan took a slow draw from his Lone Star beer, wiped his lips on his shirtsleeve, leaned into the bartender and said, “Had him circumcised.”
LOL
Parts of that are true, ya know?
Hmmm… I wonder if cars dimpled like a golf ball get better mileage….
And yes, it did.
If I remember correctly (which would in itself be a small miracle) they rigged the fuel delivery system to pull fuel from a clear acrylic tube mounted on the passenger window so they could closely and accurately monitor usage. They got college students to assist in putting a layer of modeling clay on the entire car, literally covering the entire surface with like an inch or inch and a half of the stuff. They then ran the car a measured distance and took note of it’s fuel usage. Then with help from said students, they cut “dimples” with molds they had so that the entire surface of the car was covered with these dimples. Putting the cut-out pieces of clay in the back floorboard to maintaing the vehicles weight, they ran the test again. Seems like it was something like 17% better mileage, perhaps not that much but a significant number anyway.
It could be looked up on Myth Busters I’m pretty sure.
So, moral of the story is: pocket the hail damage insurance money and get savings at the pump. (don’t quote me on that)
Edit: savings lost upon resale of the dented up vehicle, yin/yang and all that stuff
Those stones look pretty clear, the hard icy kind that do real damage. Used to ride a bike (Honda V-45 Sabre), always hated the thought of getting caught in a hail storm out in the middle of nowhere with no shelter. Good reason to wear a helmet if you ask me!
What are those, 3/4” to 1” diameter? Be nice if you’d thought to toss a ruler down with em when taking the pic. Did ya have anything beat up?
Nope no real damage. My fruit trees has the blossoms knocked off though. So we will see how that effects the crop this year. Last year we had a very early spring and very heavy late frost and got next to nothing. I hoping it won’t be too bad.