Unless your vehicle was covered, there was very little you could have done to protect it from dents and window damage during Thursday's record hail storm that damaged thousands of vehicles and hundreds of properties. Almost every uncovered vehicle in the Panther Valley area was damaged from the record storm. While Panther Valley school board candidate Mike Celentano was attending a meeting inside the high school, fist-sized hailstones smashed the back window of his Mazda and cracked the windshield.