Let me illustrate to you that I am with images.
When I see this coming from the southwest (as this image depicts) any time after 2pm:
I do this:
What you're seeing is my tomato garden covered in old bed sheets, which, in the past, have deflected some hail allowing my nightshade plants to survive. I do this mainly because, with our short growing season, if I don't I won't have anything to show for all the planting, weeding, maintaining, and watering.*
*I take the state of my garden and the harvest very seriously. As a perpetually mostly-unemployed person, I cannot define myself by my job thus I define myself by my self-sustaining hobbies like knitting, gardening, etc.