October 18... makes you think of cool weather, changing leaves, college football, chili, and..... HAIL STORMS?!?

Yep.

Kim recently got on-board with Nissan, in my same department. This is awesome for multiple reasons, not the least of which is the ability to carpool and use her '03 Accord for the daily grind. We've been leaving the Crossfire at home Mon-Fri and only using it for date nights... We did this to decrease the risk of the car getting damaged in the day-to-day commute.

Today, while we're at work 30 miles away, a freak hail storm hits my end of Murfreesboro... I'm seeing the uploads on Facebook, sick to my stomach knowing that my baby was in the mix.

I get home two hours later, and, between rain showers, dry it off just long enough to see the top side of every body panel riddled with dents.

The ugliest one was on the hood, right on the "spine" that goes down the center.

Roof probably has 25-40 dimples. Both rear fenders have 5-6 noticeable dents, one near the rear window right on the character line.

Ugh.

I'm hitting the drag strip in two weeks(ish) so any body work will have to wait. From the looks of things on the news, it's probably best as half of Murfreesboro got nailed. Home windows across the town were broken out, siding was damaged, just a mess.

To give you an idea of how much hail we got, I got home almost two hours after the storm hit. There were still 1" diameter stones on the grass. Folks said most of the bigger stones were 2+"... A city ~15 miles away had tennis-ball sized hail.

So... yep. PDR likely won't remove the bigger blemishes. I hate the thought of body filler but I hate the idea of them ripping apart the car to replace body panels.

Anyone been through this before on these cars? Ideas as to damage?

Thanks,