It is real I live in the area and have friends whose homes were severely damaged by the hail. 160K in damages to one house. Never say it is a once in a life time storm. Fort Bend County had two once in a life time floods in a matter of 16 months. I was standing on the levee that protects our neighborhood looking at the homes outside of the levee system in 2016 thinking I would never see that again. Sept 2017 the flood was even worse.

weirdest I ever saw was when a single hail stone about the size of my fist came thru the skylight in my semi sleeper. I was just outside 1604 on the west side of san antonio. dam near wrecked since it was raining heavy and I was bobtailing back to our terminal. people under the bridges and running 10 with flashers about drove me nuts that day.

never saw another pc of hail that whole storm.


a storm can have mostly dime sized but still spit out some biguns, have seen it multiple times. happened out here last bad hail storm, mostly pea sized but had some up to golf ball sized mixed in.

Mayfest had grapefruit size hail
that was really hard
went through lots of roofs

thanks for the info
we will look for some commercial re-roofs down there

I was there, but we left about 30 minutes before storm hit, had just made it back to my apartment off Camp Bowie and Hulen, parked my truck halfway under a balcony made it inside and all hail broke loose, busted out every window on the west side and two on the south side of apartment, truck bed was beat all to hail but cab forward survived.

Subj: Solar power in Texas = bad idea

My opinion: They are a bad idea, any time and any where!

p.s., So are wind turbines!

There's some irony. Global warming is supposed to create more intense storms, those intense storms create hail that damages the solar panels installed to mitigate global warming. You can't win.

Yep, solar panels have spawned scammers. Fortunately I have not seen any door knockers in my neighborhood selling them. If I do they will get the same treatment that any other door knocker gets when they stop at my house. Just watched a video where a lady selling solar panels scammed some oldsters by convincing them that the panels would be free. The company that installed the panels did the right thing. They removed them, fixed the roof, and voided the contract. The lady selling the panels was fired.

Remember it well. Had a buddy that lived on the East side. He had grapefruit sized hail. Some came through the ceiling.

I am not opposed to green energy I think it is needed but only as part of the supply. Anyone who thinks they can fully replace fossil fuels needs a reality check. As many have said the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow. I assume for the damaged panels they will be replaced and put back into operation.

My audilogist lives in Pecan Grove, Tx near Richmond, Tx she showed me a pic of hail on the ground 12" deep. It was a huge slab of solid ice. Her sons truck had dimples in the roof 2" in diameter it was beat to hell. I've seen that solar farm many times, it is south of hwy. 36 in Wallis, tx. When I went past there last Friday I saw a couple of sections of panels tilted in the wrong direction but no other damage.

They are the biggest waste of space, land owners are not able to utilize the land for anything else, they only retain 25% of what they absorb, and leave a bigger carbon footprint than what theyre trying to save with them


hey, as long as my checks dont bounce, I can mind my business.

We have them on the house. Just the back of the house so you can’t see the panels from the road. We’ve had them now for 5yrs. Im happy with my $9 electric bill from last month. The highest we e seen in the winter months is $127. We’ve been through 3 good hail storms with the biggest about golf ball size and luckily we haven’t had any damage to them. Upon installation they told us they would withstand up to baseball size. I hope we never have to test them.