So it has been seven years since Perth's freak hail storm. Who else still drives around with a car bearing the hail-damaged scars?

I had just knocked off work when it hit. I was walking out of the office and heard a massive thump on the roof. Then another. Then many.

I peaked outside and it was like a whitewash of armageddon, so I grabbed my camera and started rolling. Here is what I saw.

The weirdest thing was there was no warning. Just a thin, weird looking cloud on the BOM radar.

BOM report - "Perth dry spell ended by a wild storm".

Thankfully my car survived. Well, sort of. I was happy to overlook the myriad of dents; "it makes it more aerodynamic, like a golf ball" I thought to myself as I decided to buy the freak hail storm survivor car back from the insurance company and put it over the pits, before we began our aerodynamically improved journey together.

Speaking of golf balls, I've had some pretty hilarious comments about the beaten up mobile since, including a little old man who walked up to me at the petrol station looking concerned; "oh no. Did someone attack your car with a golf club?" "No, my friend" I replied with a giant smile, "it's from the storm of the decade".

Funnier still, an insurance inspector told me he had a guy rock up with his car, which looked like he'd beaten it with an actual golf club, trying to claim it as hail damage.

He retold the story; "I looked at him square in the eyes and said 'buddy, that's a hail damaged car' *pointing to another aerodynamically improved car in the yard* 'yours looks like you've parked it too close to the driving range'".