Oy Vey.

So, I said I'd post on my blog if anything came up, so here I am! Yesterday, I was in a town that's about 1 1/2 hours from here and I was at our yearly church convention. I was going to come home around Noon yesterday, but then I decided that I'd stay for the afternoon and then just get going soon after things ended at four. So, four o'clock rolls around and about 4:15 I head to my car to take off. Half way out to my car, I heard something hit the ground near me and I thought someone threw something. Well, the same sound occurred just in FRONT of me and I realized that it was starting to hail and that was the sound I was hearing. About two nano-seconds after that, though, there was another thing of hail and that was the point that I realized that it wasn't just little bitty pieces of hail, but it was baseball sized hail. I (and everyone else) started running for the nearest building for the next fifteen minutes, we just stayed inside and watched.

I don't really know how long the big hail fell, but after it stopped, it then start pouring out, mixed with smaller hail. Needless to say, the rain calmed down after awhile, so I headed out to my car to try and take off. It was 4:30ish by this point and I was ready to hit the road! I checked the car and all was well...until I got into the car and noticed something on my seat. Yeah. The hail blew out my back window. :( I was so discouraged!! I drove up to where my friends were and some of them helped me to get the big chunks cleaned up/vaccumed up and then we got the back covered with plastic. My friend rode home with me and we made it half way home before the plastic was sucked off the window. :( So, we just pulled it off and drove the rest of the way home with no window! :) It was actually a nice afternoon out and so the ride wasn't too bad. Just a gentle breeze going through the car. :) We got into town and decided to hang out with some friends, so they helped me put a new plastic covering on the back to get me by for awhile.

I called in the claim this morning and I have a rental car lined up starting this afternoon and they're coming on Wednesday afternoon to replace the window. Keep your fingers crossed that we have NICE days with no rain! :) After the window is replaced, I'll take the rental car back and we'll just see what happens. The adjustor is going to come by sometime before Friday, so we'll see how that goes. I'll try to get pictures just before they replace the window. It was pretty incredible. I'm not sure how big the hail stone was, but it blew out my window (I'm finding pieces of glass all over the front dashboard/floorboards/seats, etc.) and then it busted through the plastic paneling that runs through the back of the car (behind the back seat headrests...where the speakers are). There's glass all over the inside of my trunk, too, and everything that had been in there is just soaked, so we'll see how bad the damage is. I don't really understand how all of the glass ended up in the trunk (WAY in the back, even!) and I'm not sure about the water, either (but that one does make a little more sense).

Anyway, there's your update. I'll put up pictures when/if I can. All for now!