I learned a new thing today.

Golfball sized hail is really fracking loud.

Today we had a couple of lines of intense thunderstorms come through the area. Midafternoon my phone beeps at me with the weather alert, and I look at the weather radar, and I see a cell that's about to hit my home. So I call home to make sure mom and dad are safely inside. Mom answers the phone and I explain. She says it is hailing golfball sized hail right now. That's when I realize that I can hear the hailstones hitting the house in the background over the phone. And my mom was having a hard time hearing me over the noise of the hailstones.

No damage that I could find when I got home. The neighbor had a tree come down across his driveway.