The insurance industry is going to be quite busy in southern Michigan, where intense hail storms caused serious auto, property, and utility damage over the weekend. No place was hit harder than the city of Davison, which saw ice the size of softballs pelting down, destroying over 600 new cars across multiple auto dealerships. The storms left tens of thousands without power and killed at least one person. Three others from a sailboat went missing.
Whenever severe hail strikes, spectacular videos follow, and one clip of an electrical explosion has racked up over a million views on TikTok.
“It smashed my windshield on my car,” ShadowZBoi commented. “Had to pull into Hank Graff to get out of it.”
Some hail measured over 3.5 inches wide, but amazingly that falls well short of the region's 4.5-inch record set back in 1978. Still, many residents were quick to call it the biggest hail storm they’d ever seen.
“I started thinking oh my gosh, the second coming,” one woman said to a newscaster.
Despite the damage the storm apparently only lasted a few minutes. As Kenya.kenia commented on TikTok, “And after all that, it was sunny and hot.”
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