Hailstorm dents cars and tears up gardens in Fountain
Michael Logerwell
FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) – Monday was a wild day for severe weather in Southern Colorado. In several Fountain neighborhoods, a hailstorm hit residents hard.
It wasn’t as bad as some of the historic hailstorms Fountain suffered in the past decade, but just about every car around the Fountain Mesa Park is polka-dotted with small dents caused by rock-hard hail.
More than a dozen small dents cover the hood of this car parked outside in the hailstorm.
“I was on a speaker-phone with my friend, and it ended up getting so loud that the phone actually picked up the hail instead of me talking,” Jace Mueller said. He was in the basement playing video games and talking to a friend over the phone, and still heard the hail hitting the home.
The Mueller family is relatively new to the Fountain area and tells KRDO13 this is the worst hail they’ve seen in their time here.
“We’ve only lived here for a couple of years, so I don’t think I’ve seen it [hail] that big before,” Lura Mueller said.
Even those who’ve seen some bad Fountain hailstorms say Monday’s storm was pretty bad.
“We just had to watch from the door and be like, oh, everything’s wrecked,” Holly Gillespie said.
“[My car’s] got a lot of dings in it, and I haven’t looked up on the roof. I can see it starting up there. So I imagine everybody’s car that was out looks like this,” Christy Gillespie said.
Monday could prove to be just the start of severe weather impacts Southern Colorado sees this week. StormTracker13 is following daily storm chances.