Holy Hail Storm

Wow.  Said to be one of the most horrendous storm systems in 4 decades, Knoxville got off fairly easy.  I want to document this because I'm pretty sure I'll never experience anything like it again.  4 major systems came through yesterday evening, 2 of which produced HEAVY hail.  The whole family was hunkered in the basement listening/watching our house get pummeled with hail.  It sounded like our house was being hit by a million large rocks.  The little kids were very nervous during the hail, you had to yell to be heard.  They are very scared of tornadoes and ask about them a lot, so it made them very anxious to be under a tornado watch for so long.  Trey and Allie were excited, texting and on facebook.  Finally, after over an hour we told Tanner, Connor and Sydney they could sleep in the basement together, while the rest of us went  upstairs to examine the damage.  Our van was outside and dented up, gutters and window trim dented and one window (the outer pane) broken.  Very lucky.  With the noise, I would have thought all the windows were broken.  Watching the news this morning to see how bad surrounding states were hit was humbling.