On June 12, 2014 a hail storm that hit Abilene produced more than $400 million in insured losses to vehicles, homes and commercial property. "This is the worst storm damage I've seen in my 41 years in the insurance business," Leroy Perkins of the Perkins Insurance Agency in Abilene, told the largest state insurance trade association in the United States. the storm, packing baseball-sized hail, moved directly south across Abilene pounding the city's north side and downtown area. Commercial buildings downtown received millions of dollars in damage to roofs, windows and structures. Total uninsured losses are also expected to be high, Perkins adds. "Downtown looks like autumn because all of the trees have been stripped of their leaves and many limbs down in the street," Karla Martin with the Taylor County Sheriff's Office said the day after the storm. Hundreds of vehicles, many of them new cars, were declared totaled from the beating they took. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) notes that hail causes approximately 1$ billion in damage to crops and property each year.
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1740: Delaware River freezes over
1864: Bitter cold on New Year's Day
1978: Severe ice storm strikes N. Texas
1880: Negative temperatures and bitter cold hit East coast
1830: "Winter of the Deep Snow" begins
1879: 17" of snow falls in Jerusalem
1992: Bitter cold strikes the Carolinas
2010: Major winter storm barrels up East coast
1775: Washington's historic crossing of the Delaware
1966: Christmas Eve coastal storm strikes East coast
1775: The Snow Campaign
1989: Severe cold strikes nation's midsection
2006: Blizzard strands 5,000 passengers at Denver Int.
1836: "The Sudden Freeze"
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2013: Record warmth spreads across Plains states
1903: The Wright Bros. historic flight in Kitty Hawk, NC
1835: "Cold Wednesday"
1945: Intense lake effect snow event
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