When we left Long Island's hurricanes to happily retire to Western North Carolina, little did we know about routine hail along with daily afternoon thunderstorms in hot weather. Today's was a doozy! Scared the heck out of Louie, Beegie and Ricky. Sent this to our local ABC TV affiliate and it was shown on the 11pm news. (Might have made it for the 5pm news had we not had a power failure just as I was about to hit "send".) Note: This is quite oversharpened, but that was necessary in order to make the size of the hail visible.