Hail-damage Oppo roll call

"smobgirl" (smobgirl)
05/08/2017 at 21:51 • Filed to: None

Yes, I’m drinking now. And praising the baby jesus that my Tercel has all of its windows intact.

How did the rest of you fare today?

DISCUSSION (49)

boredalways > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 21:54

Did you say ‘Tercel’?

CB > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 21:55

Yeesh, is there bad body damage as well?

My day was a lot better than yours.

smobgirl > CB
05/08/2017 at 21:56

Numerous dents about the size of those holes.

CB > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 21:58

Oof. And insurance is going to be a pain in the arse about it.

Rico > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 21:59

Damn nature you scary!

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:02

Hey, at least it took hail to dent the Fiat, and not acorns, like my Fiesta!

smobgirl > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
05/08/2017 at 22:13

I honestly don’t even know where I’d go to get acorn damage here! But yikes :(

MonkeePuzzle > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:13

after seeing yours, and others posts on facebook i ran and hid, and glsd I did so

Kinja'd!!!

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:14

Ouch. Every time I hear “hail”, I get the shivers and try to get into a garage as soon as possible. Even the little stuff freaks me out and I try to hide my car somewhere.

Sorry to see your loss. I wonder if they’ll try to fix it.

bhtooefr > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:19

Shit, that sucks.

Friday, I drove through some hail somewhere in West Virginia? Maryland? Not sure, it was on I-68. No damage to the Prius, though.

smobgirl > bhtooefr
05/08/2017 at 22:21

I saw so many broken windows on the way home. I’ve never seen hail like this. One piece hit my spring-operated gas cap and opened it, and another piece sheared a chunk right off.

Kinja'd!!!

Chariotoflove > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:22

Oh geez!, my heart goes out to you. I was driving home and got caught in a short spate of vicious hail a few years ago. It just blew in and blew out, and left me with $3,000 worth of dents all over my car.

LongbowMkII > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:29

Add more Abarth with a plexiglass rear window!

That really sucks though. How’s the bodywork?

AestheticsInMotion > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:30

I’m super jealous of places that get interesting, extreme weather, be it -30, tornados, or whatever.

Until I see this.... Hope insurance takes care of everything without too much hassle. On a related note what would getting hit with hail like that do to a person? (assuming it can break off the metal of your gas cover)

random001 > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:32

Kinja'd!!!

That sucks! Glad you weren’t outside when it was coming down, right?

Oh, hey, nice shoes.

smobgirl > LongbowMkII
05/08/2017 at 22:32

More dents, fewer holes?

smobgirl > AestheticsInMotion
05/08/2017 at 22:32

Some woman posted a photo of bruises on the news...it looked bad.

smobgirl > random001
05/08/2017 at 22:33

I got caught in a much lighter storm while running last year, glad I was inside today!

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:36

We had a storm like this a couple years ago and some cars are still driving around with damage. Be cautious of all of the fly by night “Auto Hail Repair!” shops that pop up out of nowhere and take it to an established body shop even if that means waiting a while. I don’t know about CO but here in TX we don’t have to go where the insurance company first asks us to. One of my friends had a Mazda5 totaled from three shatter windows and the body panel damage. Another still has a cracked headlight and dings all over his Tacoma that he decided just give it character, though I imagine he’ll get it fixed up at some point. One had a white Golf TDI that we called the “golf ball” since it was completely covered in dents. This was right after dieselgate broke and they got the last laugh because after driving it for a year they got to hand in a Golf that needed $5k+ in body repairs to VW and take the payout as if it was new. Hang in there. Glad you’re OK. It sucks to see a cool car beat up like that but it’s repairable.

random001 > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:36

This is why I don’t run. It’s far too dangerous.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:36

Yeah, if it’s like the Fiesta, it will need a new roof skin. So, since I’ll likely be in the same parking situation this Fall, dents it is.

smobgirl > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
05/08/2017 at 22:40

Yeah, I had a $4k hail claim a few years ago that looked like much less damage than this. We’ll see how this works out.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:44

Good luck! Yeah I was looking it thinking it could be close to totaled considering the damage level and 500 Abarth resale values. Hopefully they do repair it, coz it would suck to see an Abarth go away from a hail storm. The storm here caused so much damage that a lot of companies were lowering the damage threshold that they were writing cars off at just to clear their back-log.

MarquetteLa > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 22:46

So sorry to hear about your Abarth :(

I was at work in Boulder right on that blue dot. I live right in there middle of the purple center of that storm. Thankfully the Miata was spared (it got hailed on pretty bad around this time two years ago) and the GTX was safe in the garage at home.

Kinja'd!!!

smobgirl > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
05/08/2017 at 22:46

If they total it I plan on buying it back either way. Probably just drive a golf ball then!

smobgirl > MarquetteLa
05/08/2017 at 22:56

Glad to hear. I think a garage or carport might be my next project...can’t deal with this again.

Blondude > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 23:06

They were only about marble-sized here but it still didn’t feel very good getting pelted on the head with them walking to class.

smobgirl > MonkeePuzzle
05/08/2017 at 23:11

Geez! We didn’t get to see the worst up close since it kept hailing for half an hour. Those look like they could do some serious damage.

CB > AestheticsInMotion
05/08/2017 at 23:25

I would take -46 over hail any day.

AestheticsInMotion > CB
05/08/2017 at 23:45

F or C? I’ve only ever seen hail a few times... And it was basically pea sized. Still pretty interesting

Khalbali > smobgirl
05/08/2017 at 23:48

That really sucks, where was it? You’re west right? I didn’t see any in centennial, but I had my beloved mazda2 wrecked in the 2014 storm there, wiped out like 8 dealerships on arapahoe.

CB > AestheticsInMotion
05/08/2017 at 23:48

Celsius. It’s not as bad as you might think.

smobgirl > Khalbali
05/09/2017 at 00:08

Yeah, work is Lakewood. This car had a bunch of damage in the 2014 storm as well, but not like this.

Khalbali > smobgirl
05/09/2017 at 00:11

Yeah we used to live up in belmar, some of the pics from there are crazy, we’re just a little south now in Littleton but doesn’t seem to have been bad here although neither of us were home.

Dusty Ventures > smobgirl
05/09/2017 at 01:22

Jezus. How’s the body?

Dusty Ventures > AestheticsInMotion
05/09/2017 at 01:23

At that point it doesn’t matter. F and C converge at -40° (as in -40F = -40C)

Tristan > AestheticsInMotion
05/09/2017 at 01:56

Eventually the Pacific Northwest will be the site of the greatest natural disaster in the history of mankind when an earthquake with a minimum magnitude of 9.0 strikes a massive, extremely unprepared area spanning from California to the Aleutian Islands, so there’s that. Does that count as weather?

I like to remind people of this when I tell them I moved here from Florida and they’re like “OMG!!!!! WEREN’T THOSE HURRICSNES SCARY?!?!?” It’s just some wind and rain, folks.

AestheticsInMotion > Tristan
05/09/2017 at 02:11

I realize this could come off as very insensitive, but the few earthquakes I’ve been present for (that were large enough to shake the ground, break buildings, etc.) have been an absolute blast.

But yeah magnitude 9.0+.... On a scale of tomorrow to the sun burning out how quickly are we talking about here..? Should I be readying myself for impending doom?

With something like that I can kinda just except the fact that I’ll be completely, 100% unprepared. The hail though? I can’t imagine waking up every day in winter or whenever hail like that forms and wondering “Hey is my car and/or body getting destroyed today?”

AestheticsInMotion > Dusty Ventures
05/09/2017 at 02:14

Good point, they’re close enough. I’ve been grading papers on the pros and cons of using Fahrenheit vs Celsius vs other for temperature notation so I guess it’s been on my mind!

Tristan > AestheticsInMotion
05/09/2017 at 03:37

I’ve never experienced an earthquake, but I can see how a 6.0 or less could be fun. I’ll do my best to sound smrt here... The frequency of massive Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes is as often as 100-300 years, and as little as 500-600 years. The last one was around 1700. The subduction zone off the Oregon coast has been eerily quiet, as the coastal ranges rise due to the ocean plate putting ever greater pressure on the continental plate. In other words, maybe we’re overdue, maybe we’re not. But it sure seems like the plates are storing up a lot of energy and people with bigger brains than me say it’s pretty likely in the next 50 years. The few things in Oregon that are built to seismic standards are built to bare minimums, a massive portion of the buildings are unreinforced masonry, the land all throughout the state is subject to liquefaction and landslides, most of the coastal towns will be destroyed by the tsunami, the Portland airport- the peoples’ only hope for relief- is build on unstable dredge soils, the only petroleum port for the state is, too... It’ll be bad. So far the biggest thing the gubmint has done to address the issue is to hide it as much as possible to prevent prospective businesses from being scared off.

pip bip - choose Corrour > smobgirl
05/09/2017 at 04:03

any panel damage?

smobgirl > Dusty Ventures
05/09/2017 at 08:50

Looks like a golf ball with racing stripes.

smobgirl > pip bip - choose Corrour
05/09/2017 at 08:53

I could see the roof dents from my office window. I guess we’ll see what insurance says.

pip bip - choose Corrour > smobgirl
05/09/2017 at 08:57

that’s bad.

Dusty Ventures > smobgirl
05/09/2017 at 09:31

Oof

benjrblant > smobgirl
05/09/2017 at 11:05

I lucked out and parked inside a shed! Hope you and the Tercel are alright.

fhrblig > smobgirl
05/10/2017 at 00:05

I lucked out because my car was parked over in the Lowry area. If it had been at my office near the foothills, my car would likely have been totaled.

E90M3 > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
05/10/2017 at 06:17

Remember that hail storm we got in April of 2016? As it worked out, I was in Los Angeles at the time, with the M3 safely tucked in my garage and my 128i in covered airport parking.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > E90M3
05/10/2017 at 06:36

It missed us by like one neighborhood. We got peas sized stuff that did nothing but the next subdivision over is where the carnage started.