CLEBURNE, Texas — Monday night's storm forced many people to pull over in their cars, like Tanya Veith, who found herself driving through hail.
Many drivers pulled under overpasses and gas station canopies to try to minimize the damage to their vehicles.
"Just as I was pulling around the front of the building, a big one hit my windshield and thankfully was soft enough to scatter. It might have cracked it," Veith said.
Other drivers heading home weren't so lucky. Jillian Peirce had already looked at the radar on her cell phone. She had hoped to beat the storm before it arrived.
"I was trying to get home before the storm I didn't," Peirce said.
Hail shattered the windshield on Jillian Peirce's car, which she had plans to put up for sale. She called her husband on the phone to tell him what was happening.
"It just kind of sounded like I was being hit by a baseball bat," said Peirce, "It was really loud. I called my husband and he couldn't even hear what I was trying to say."
Johnson County Emergency Management workers shared photos with WFAA that show damage of homes and buildings after the storm. They blame high winds.
High winds are also blamed for damage at Cohn & Gregory in Cleburne. Managers found their oversized garage doors on Tuesday morning blown off. Fortunately, their warehouse was empty of employees. Employees searched and found one of the oversized garage doors several feet away from the building wrapped around branches up high in a tree out front. The company is waiting on insurance adjusters so they can make repairs.
Just like some homeowners, those repairs come with a warning. Benjamin Palmer is the spokesperson for State Farm Insurance in several states, including Texas. Palmer wants people to learn how to avoid being taken advantage of after the storm. Most insurance companies like State Farm will provide customers with referrals. But scammers are counting on people being anxious and in a hurry to get their repairs done as soon as possible.
"So, we always recommend for folks to do a search or a check or find someone that is a reputable contractor, somebody that has a license, that's bonded, insured," said Benjamin Palmer.
Palmer warns if a repair job after the storm sound too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. That's what Palmer calls a red flag.
According to State Farm Insurance, the top three scam alerts after storm damage are pushy sales tactics like today only offers, out of state workers who tell you they need to do the work now before they leave the area and contractors with no proof of license.
Since this is just the start of storm season in Texas you can count on seeing more storms. That comes as no surprise to people who have spent time in the Lone Star State.
"Weather used to scare me when I was younger, but I've been a Texan a long time," Veith said.