Last week, grapefruit-sized hail fell in Odessa for about 30 minutes, the Houston Chronicle reports. But what's especially newsworthy about the occurrence is that the half-hour managed to cause $480 million in damages, according to an estimate made by the Insurance Council of Texas.
Thousands of homes and some 35,000 vehicles are thought to have been damaged during the storm.
According to one Insurance Council of Texas official, a hailstorm hasn’t caused as much damage in the area in 20 or 30 years.
One car dealership reported that all of its 700 vehicles were hit in the storm, totaling an estimated $10 million worth of damage.
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