Sleet and rainfall pelted sections of the Miami Valley, resulting in significant harm to residences and vehicles.
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Similar to those in the surrounding areas of the Miami Valley, residents of Greene County have also faced damages resulting from the rainy weekend.
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In Jamestown, a woman mentioned that she believed the hail would shatter her farmhouse windows due to the noise sounding like "stones striking against them."
Audra Greene informed News Center 7 that the storm roused her and her spouse from their sleep. Upon getting up and peering outside, they witnessed the hailstones responsible for the noise.
"Similar in size to an ice cube, but they appeared clustered together all over the front porch," Greene stated.
As shown on News Center 7 at 5 PM In response, a man from Xenia quipped that it seemed as though his vehicle was parked on what resembled a golf course driving range.
"There are dents all over the place," Nick Downs stated.
The storm shattered the windows of Downs' vehicle. While navigating through the tempest on U.S. Route 35 close to Jamestown, he found himself trapped. Conditions deteriorated to such an extent that he had to stop his journey homeward bound to Xenia.
"The windshield fractured, and entirely blew off the sunroof of my vehicle. I realized matters were dire when rain began seeping into the car through where the sunroof had been," he stated.
Downs' vehicle required towing to a repair shop, and he worked from home all day Monday until his rental car was available in the evening.
He mentioned that he felt grateful for not getting injured during the storm on the highway.
“He remembered it as incredibly noisy,” he said. “Being in that scenario with a shattered windscreen and nowhere to escape was profoundly frightening.”
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