Solid ice the size of golf balls and baseballs rained down on the Coastal Bend on Nov. 1, shattering windows, stripping vegetation from the trees and damaging roofs through Taft, Gregory, Portland, Ingleside, Beeville, San Diego and north of Baffin Bay.

Sounds scary, right? Now imagine you're a 9-pound bird with hollow bones, hit by even one hailstone.

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