GREENE COUNTY — Hail and rain hammered parts of the Miami Valley and left behind quite a bit of damage to homes and cars.
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Like others around the Miami Valley, Greene County residents have been dealing with damage following the wet weekend.
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In Jamestown, one woman said she thought the hail was going to break her farmhouse windows because it sounded like “rocks hitting the windows.”
Audra Greene told News Center 7 that the storm woke her and her husband. When they got up and looked outside, they saw the hail that caused the racket.
“About the size of an ice cube, but they were all over the front porch in clusters,” Greene said.
As shown on News Center 7 at 5:00, one Xenia man joked that it looked like his car was parked on the driving range of a golf course.
“There’s just dents everywhere,” Nick Downs said.
The storm did break the windows on Downs’ car. He got caught driving in the storm along U.S. 35 near Jamestown. It got so bad, he pulled over on his way home to Xenia.
“The windshield cracked, the sunroof on my car was blown out completely, and I knew that things were bad when it started raining inside the car from the sunroof being gone,” he said.
Downs’ car needed to be towed to a body shop and he had to work from home Monday before his rental car was ready in the afternoon.
He said he was thankful he wasn’t hurt after that storm on the highway.
“It was extremely loud,” he recalled. “And it was very, very terrifying to be in that situation with a busted windshield and no place to go.”
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