Worst overnight hailstorm in more than 20 years pummels areas near Colorado Springs
Thousands of houses and cars were damaged early Wednesday by large hail during the worst overnight storm in
Hail up to an inch also was reported near the
"It was a historic event, considering the time of day," said
The storm comes nearly two years after parts of
Just hours after this week's storm hit,
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He went outside with a flashlight and found his and his wife's cars hammered by the hail. The front and back windshields were damaged.
"I couldn't do anything but drop my head and walk back inside," said Jordan, whose house wasn't damaged.
About 50 cars along his three block street had shattered windshields and a few homes had broken windows and damage to siding.
Not far away, in the 700 block of
Only one of their cars was damaged because Wesley drove the family's Jeep SUV to the
The family's other car was out in the open during the hailstorm because the garage door stopped working about a month ago.
"We've had the worst of luck," Wesley said.
"The sound was deafening," Richardson said. "My wife was terrified. I have never heard anything so loud and never seen hail that big, and we have lived in this area for 27 years, including 11 years in this house."
Richardson said windows, the roof, siding, deck, fence and barbecue grill also were damaged by the hail, and all the plants around their home were "destroyed." But the couple's cars were inside their garage, so they didn't get hit.
"Water started leaking through a light fixture and smoke detector about 2:30," Richardson said. "The smoke detector went off and then shorted out. I didn't get any sleep last night. The deck looked like somebody took a hammer to it."
When he left for work Wednesday morning, Richardson said his neighborhood "looked like a war zone with windshields and car windows broken out."
"The hail was the size of my fist!" Gullatte said. "At first it sounded like a lot of knocking but eventually I got up and looked outside. I got the kids out of their room and put them in our room and not long after that the window next to my bed shattered."
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"Mostly surface damage, with a lot of broken skylights and damaged roofs," she said.
District officials were assessing the aftermath of the storm Wednesday morning, McGee said, when baseball-size hail remained on some of the roofs at
Metal sides of buildings, including some of the siding on the new
The district's schools on
Several of
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