Goodness gracious, great balls of ice!

We've noticed that spring weather in Timaru can be pretty crazy.  We'll be sweating it out in shorts and t-shirts one day, then lighting a fire the next.  Today was a day of Much Excitement with the biggest hailstorm we've seen in Timaru EVER.  Sure we've seen a few bouts of hail over the last nine-and-a-half-almost-ten years we've been living here, but nothing like this.  No wonder the young kids at the school where I'm employed were scared - they've never seen anything like this in their lives!  In the aftermath we have a few broken gutters, half the leaves from our trees lying in the garden, and three pock-marked cars.  But others were far worse off - we've heard tell of broken windows, leaking roofs, and car dealerships whose entire fleet may need to be written off.