About 10 or 15 yrs ago, I saw a hailstorm with actual quarter-sized, pingpong-ball sized hail... it put a couple dents in my car's hood, but nothing major -- it was too old a beater to worry about a few dents!

Today's were rather small, no more than dime-sized I'd say, but it was like ALL OF A SUDDEN! there's a torrent of ice from the sky, noisy as everything! I look out, and the trees in the back are just going nuts, and I'm like holy you know what, gotta see if there's tornadoes round hyeah... nope, just "40mph gusts", and I can believe it!
At first the cat ran to her cave under my husband's bed, and when it stopped, she came back out, looking out the sliding doors with me. Then it started thundering again... she ran to the footwell of my desk!
Andria