{"id":13206,"date":"2026-04-02T16:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13206"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:09:28","slug":"giant-hail-recorded-tuesday-evening-in-the-town-of-see-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13206","title":{"rendered":"Giant hail recorded Tuesday evening in the town of\u2026 See more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"234\">A powerful thunderstorm shocked a quiet rural community Tuesday evening, unleashing massive hailstones nearly the size of softballs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"465\">Within minutes, dark skies turned dangerous as ice battered homes, shattered windows, dented cars, and destroyed gardens and farm fields. A local plant nursery reported devastating losses after thousands of plants were wiped out.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"577\">Thankfully, early weather warnings gave residents time to seek shelter, and no serious injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"744\">The dramatic storm hit\u00a0<strong data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"619\">Leakey, Texas<\/strong>, quickly going viral as photos and videos of the enormous hail spread across social media, showing the true force of nature.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"746\" data-end=\"823\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f329.svg\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf29\ufe0f\" \/>\u00a0Extreme weather is becoming harder to predict \u2014 stay alert and stay safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A powerful thunderstorm shocked a quiet rural community Tuesday evening, unleashing massive hailstones nearly the size of softballs. Within minutes, dark skies turned dangerous as <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13206\" title=\"Giant hail recorded Tuesday evening in the town of\u2026 See more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13208,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13206\/revisions\/13208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}