Sunday may have been Father's Day, but Mother Nature was getting plenty of attention as a wild storm cut a path through parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
A freak hailstorm dumped stones as big as golf balls on parts of Springhill Sunday afternoon.
"Big ice balls I guess is what it looked like," says area resident Lorri Bannister. "And it was loud, it was just pounding."
The ice balls pounded down for roughly 20 minutes and Shelly Knapman says she was worried they might damage her car.
"I thought, ‘oh my god, it's going to break the windshield or dent it,' but it didn't, luckily," she tells CTV.
Matt Robinson collected the hailstones in a cup. He described the stones to be about the size of a quarter and he complained that it actually hurt when they hit him in the head.
Nancy Lowe Hunter said it was so bad she couldn't get out of her car and found herself stuck sitting in her car waiting for the hailstorm to end.
"I couldn't make it in the house so I called my husband on my cell and I told him ‘I'm stuck in the car, out in the driveway,' " she says.
Springhill mayor, Allen Dill says his family's garden was nearly destroyed by the ice pellets.
"When we were looking at the road here, it almost looked like a river, and then in our driveway there was a river going through it, but covered with…snow," says Dill.
He says no one reported any serious property damage from the storm.
Hail, although a little smaller, also struck earlier in the day in Riverview, New Brunswick.
An intense electrical storm moved quickly through Moncton around 1 p.m. and there was flash-flooding in several parts of the city.
Severe thunderstorms also rolled across Cape Breton Sunday night, knocking out power in several communities.
Electricity was restored across the region by 8:30 a.m. Monday
With files from CTV Atlantic's Dan MacIntosh
