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Who got hail damage?

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Created by doggie > 9 months ago, 22 Mar 2010
doggie
WA, 15849 posts
22 Mar 2010 5:55PM
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I did!!

ducatist
WA, 16 posts
22 Mar 2010 6:22PM
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Yes we have!
A brand new Mercedes is written off, like it was Beirut, Holes in windscreen like golf balls.
And not a straight panel anywhere!
Car is like a fishbowl inside!
Cars all around our area are destroyed!
So are lots of pergola roofs!
Insurance companies will be flat out, so will be lots of trades!

GalahOnTheBay
NSW, 4188 posts
22 Mar 2010 9:30PM
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All good, as long as that wasn't one of the coverage options you thought you could do without.

landyacht
WA, 5921 posts
22 Mar 2010 6:48PM
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daughter rang and told me that it actually snowed in city beach after the hail

KEARNSY
WA, 1321 posts
22 Mar 2010 7:26PM
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THe woman next door did , but then again she's had it for years

62mac
WA, 24860 posts
22 Mar 2010 7:50PM
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KEARNSY said...

THe woman next door did , but then again she's had it for years


Farrrk move man move

edit, I take it you guy' coped some wild wild west action
Hope all is well

Elroy Jetson
WA, 706 posts
22 Mar 2010 8:21PM
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My car has many new speed dents.

My neighbours entire Pergola roof was broken to bits by the hail



The shameless plug: I have many years experience installing, re-sheeting and repairing pergolas.

www.pergolaimprovements.com.au

Feel free to contact me if you live in Perth's northern suburbs and require a quote.

Greenroom
WA, 7608 posts
22 Mar 2010 8:56PM
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Yeah it was full on!
Do you install gutters Elroy?

patsken
WA, 706 posts
22 Mar 2010 9:03PM
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I got lucky.
I stuck the cars out in the driveway for a free wash - they don't get washed too often!
A friend texted from about 5kms away and said she was getting bombarded by golf ball sized hail so I put them back in garage nicely cleaned and no more than 10 minutes later we had the lot. Plenty of hail and raging torrents running down our road into the sump at the bottom of the hill.
Every kid in the street had their boogey boards out and had a ball in the knee deep water (until the thunder and lightening was directly overhead - then they SH_T themselves. The dogs only just stopped shivering). The storm water sump was half filled in about 15 minutes.

Good luck to those that got damage.....

Elroy Jetson
WA, 706 posts
22 Mar 2010 9:41PM
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I install gutters only on Pergolas.

With all the different styles of gutters, house roof plumbing is a job in itself. I refer all house gutter jobs to John's roofing.

I can PM you his number if you're interested.

I wouldn't worry just yet if you have gutters that normally drain fine but leaked/overflowed during the storm late this afternoon. I would guess that 90% of Perth residents in the path of the storm would have had overflowing gutters during today's intense downpour.

mineral1
WA, 4564 posts
22 Mar 2010 10:25PM
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Elroy Jetson said...

I install gutters only on Pergolas.

With all the different styles of gutters, house roof plumbing is a job in itself. I refer all house gutter jobs to John's roofing.

I can PM you his number if you're interested.

I wouldn't worry just yet if you have gutters that normally drain fine but leaked/overflowed during the storm late this afternoon. I would guess that 90% of Perth residents in the path of the storm would have had overflowing gutters during today's intense downpour.


Just emailed your contact site to my daughter in Joondalup. their patio looks a little like the one you put up
Didn't get any hail in Carramar but the gutters back washed into the eaves and ran a river out through garage
Fortunately I was watching on rain radar at work, called wife who was out in direct line of impact zone, and recommended she head home and put my favourite toy back in garage (Cruiser) First up she said "its sunny out side, until she looked North then thought, I have seen this before in Sydney many moons back and headed home safe garage

rescueme
WA, 79 posts
22 Mar 2010 10:35PM
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My wifes car is a write-off. Was fully insured with RAC but I'm not sure if storm damage is covered and their website is down... (overloaded)

Elroy Jetson
WA, 706 posts
22 Mar 2010 10:51PM
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I wasn't expecting the storm at all but when it happened I managed to take some footage of the backyard. The hail was ping ponging around so I placed the camera on the table and went (quickly) back inside.





tightlines
WA, 3477 posts
23 Mar 2010 1:37AM
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Yep I am now living in Ocean Reef as well, a friend was coming over to give me a lift back when I dropped my motorbike in for a service. She seemed suprised when I said I had decided to give it a miss because it looked black as to the NW and definitely not motorbike weather. About 15mins later it hit and I lost my whole side fence.
She called me later to say on the way home the hail had smashed her windscreen, and a headlight and had even put a golfball sized hole through the plastic bumper.
Her back patio was just smashed to pieces liike the one in that video and worst of all the whole house was flooded and the ceiling was caving in in places and sagging because it was full of water. Lights and power had tripped also.

www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/perth-wakes-up-to-a-100m-cleanup-after-storm-of-the-year-20100322-qqmw.html

GreenPat
QLD, 4083 posts
23 Mar 2010 9:23AM
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Yeah, I reckon my girlfriend's car will be a write-off. 7 out of 9 panels are peppered with dents, windscreen is severely cracked and 1 window is too. The insurance policy should cover it - it's comprehensive and doesn't exclude hail, so hopefully they don't try and weasel out of it.

Dawn Patrol
WA, 1991 posts
23 Mar 2010 9:11AM
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My car looks like someone played golf onto the roof for a couple hours. And both my wing mirrors are smashed out. Being a student (aka, poor), i can't afford comprehensive insurance (which is about $1700 for a 15 year old 4runner).
Asked my house mate whos a car painter, said it'd need a full respray to fix it (approx $6000) apparently.
Mathews oval, where heaps of uni kids park for free parking, had their cars in water well above the doorline.
There were birds that had been nailed by the hail around uni everywhere as well, poor little guys...

Poodle
WA, 866 posts
23 Mar 2010 3:13PM
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We are in Nedlands - The whole suburb got hammered. UWA copped some severe damage. Car looks like it has been done over with a ball hammer!



doggie
WA, 15849 posts
23 Mar 2010 3:17PM
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^^ Im @ Chellingworth Motors, we really got it!!

busterwa
3777 posts
23 Mar 2010 4:29PM
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same there was golf bals going through the patio pannels!!!

busterwa
3777 posts
23 Mar 2010 4:34PM
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wasnt as bad as this!!!




getfunky
WA, 4485 posts
23 Mar 2010 5:22PM
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Flooded study room, water everywhere in the kitchen, possibly stuffed gtr amp.
We got off extremely lightly compared to most in the surrounding burbs.

I detoured thru Flozzer on the way home and have never seen anything approaching the scene there.

Had two roofy dudes come to quote on new gutters today. Their ute had around 10 shatters on the windscreen and 70+ big @rsed dents all over the bonnet and roof. Said they saw a school kids running past with golf balls richocheting off him all over the place. Lucky he had a helmet on.

Kn craaaazy weather - it that nong Brashone's fault I'm sure!

theDoctor
NSW, 5780 posts
23 Mar 2010 10:07PM
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damn global WARMING

Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
23 Mar 2010 11:14PM
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Ain't no global warming, been there done that 15 years ago.

I lived in Armidale NSW in 96. On grandfinal day we were in the pub watching the game. My best mate going for the Sea Eagles I go for the Dragons. Around half time it sounds like a bunch of carpenters are beating on the roof with hammers. Oh well.

We keep drinking and watching the game and then finish up after Manly wins. Start walking home.......

Bloody hell. Not exactly world war 3 but there was a huge amount of destruction. My VS Commodore had the crap beaten out of it. Back window smashed, every panel beaten and all the plastic bits smashed.

The roofers and plumbers were busy in Armidale for the next year or so.

So the big tip out of this is for roofers and plumbers in WA to be working hard and cashing in after the storm.


Here are a couple of pages that covers the Armidale storm and this was before the Interweb became totally dominant.

www.australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/1996/docs/9609-04.htm
http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emadisasters.nsf/c85916e930b93d50ca256d050020cb1f/2e04349837e08a1eca256d3300057c1d?OpenDocument

tightlines
WA, 3477 posts
24 Mar 2010 12:21AM
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getfunky
WA, 4485 posts
24 Mar 2010 10:52AM
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^^^^ Spencer Tunic's latest work??

Legion
WA, 2222 posts
24 Mar 2010 12:35PM
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doggie said...

^^ Im @ Chellingworth Motors, we really got it!!

I'm just east of you and yeah, we got nailed. Every car a write off (lucky I ride my bike most days incl. Monday), building got worked, next door's building worked, most trees stripped. Back streets of Nedlands you couldn't see the road in parts due to a foot of stripped vegetation. Was fun riding home.

Poodle
WA, 866 posts
24 Mar 2010 1:26PM
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I knew some crazies would be out in it. Check this out:




Poods

Captain Bob
WA, 160 posts
24 Mar 2010 2:21PM
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Yeah had two skylights smashed so the hail was coming into the house. Numerous roof tiles broken, roof flooded which then poured water into the back room and flooded that. Missus car was parked in the carport but I have about a 1m gap between the carport and roof which let hail get in and dent the bonnet. I've only been in the house for 2 weeks.

landyacht
WA, 5921 posts
24 Mar 2010 7:30PM
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did anybody get any solar panel damage
we get hit by one of these ever couple of years , and youve all got me stressing now

Legion
WA, 2222 posts
24 Mar 2010 8:42PM
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Looking from my office they're smashed all over the place (e.g. three I can see from the office, none intact). Other suburbs (e.g. where I live, only a few km away) didn't seem to smash any.

tightlines
WA, 3477 posts
24 Mar 2010 10:18PM
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landyacht said...

did anybody get any solar panel damage
we get hit by one of these ever couple of years , and youve all got me stressing now


There were two solar hot water systems smashed to pieces just around the corner, the rain had stopped but there was water 'persisting' out of one of them, must have broke the copper? core or whatever as well as the glass.
I have lived in Perth for...... ummmm..... a long time though and I have never seen hailstones anywhere near the size of the ones that hit my place the other day, the noise was deafening.



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