It sounds to me like somebody down at the local paper is over-doing it just a little bit–here’s an excerpt from a story about last week’s hailstorm: “Many people?s flowers were completely stripped of petals and vegetables were pummeled with the hard rockets of ice as they cascaded from the heavens.” Hard rockets of ice, huh? I think that’s overly-dramatic. It hailed big time. Whoopteedoo.