FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU MOTHER NATURE, FUCK YOU

[schild]

So, when things couldn't get worse. Hail, 3/4 the size of golf balls. Here's 2 of the ones near my front door (raining too much to take pictures in the street, what I will call, Madness Hail).

Car. Fucking. Destroyed.

[voodoolily]

Awww. God hates you because you're a Jew.

[Nebu]

Welcome to Texas.

Sorry to hear it man.  Texas is home of large hail and tornados.  Ok... not as bad as Oklahoma, but close.

Again, sorry about your car.  Stuff like this really can toss a wrench into the gears of life.

[Salamok]

already covered ya in the take a picture a day thread

[schild]

already covered ya in the take a picture a day thread

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT. DESERVES ITS OWN THREAD.


My car looks like a fucking hammered steel drum. THE ENTIRE FUCKING THING.


motherfucking ripped my badge off the car

Who knows where the fuck that is.


The gutters are like the asshole of hell itself.

[Ookii]

Edit: I give up.

Apparently this happens quite often there from a google search!

[Salamok]

All the time but it is usually a bit localized as in the entire city doesn't get hit in 1 go.  This is the 1st time in 10 years my truck has even been hit and since it was pretty much in the lee of the house it wasn't damaged (that hail was friggen flying though).

Lucky it didn't smash in a car window and flood your car.  Repairing hail damaged cars is a cottage industry here so getting it fixed isn't as pricey as most body work.  Just hop down the street and see who is repairing all of the cars at your nearest car dealership and ask em what they charge.

Edit: news has reports of tennis ball sized hail within a mile of here.

[schild]

By popular request!



The top 3/4 of the window, destroyed. The frame around the window, bent to hell. Hinges blown out. Holes in the fabric.

[schild]

All the time but it is usually a bit localized as in the entire city doesn't get hit in 1 go.  This is the 1st time in 10 years my truck has even been hit and since it was pretty much in the lee of the house it wasn't damaged (that hail was friggen flying though).

Lucky it didn't smash in a car window and flood your car.  Repairing hail damaged cars is a cottage industry here so getting it fixed isn't as pricey as most body work.  Just hop down the street and see who is repairing all of the cars at your nearest car dealership and ask em what they charge.

Edit: news has reports of tennis ball sized hail within a mile of here.

Wait, insurance doesn't cover this shit?

Dude, I can't even afford food. I might as well just take out a loan and get a new fucking car. That's hailproof or something. Like a Volkswagen Thing.

As you can see, my window was blown in and my car is filled with glass, hail, and broken dreams.

[Salamok]

on closer inspection the hood of my car is slightly peppered (tons of minor dings), i think it is minor enough to just heat up and cool off to pop em out.

[schild]

Minor dings. How sad.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH.

[schild]

For the record:

Outside of my apartment immediately following this, you could only hear crying and sirens.

[schild]

I blame NCSoft.

[schild]

And "Bioware."

[ahoythematey]

Considering how many close lightning strikes I witnessed in the part I live, I'm surprised my car isn't a smoldering crater right now.  Strangely enough, hail did not make an appearance in my neck of the woods.  Looks like your car was the happening place this time, and everyone was invited.

[schild]

And Warren Spector, for making a Disney game.

[Yegolev]

Welcome to Texas.

I was going to post this.  You traded scorpions for storms.

Also something about sympathy.  I deleted it because it was no good.  I'm bad with expressing sympathy.

Also, kudos on the rapidfire posting.  Get that anger out.  Maybe start a Twitter.

[schild]

Fuck a twitter.

[schild]

There were 4 sizes of hail today:

Golf Ball.
Pool ball.
Baseball.
Yeti Balls.

[Hindenburg]

And... what were you doing while the sky was falling?

nice emo post, btw.

[ahoythematey]

Oh yeah.

Welcome to Texas.

[Salamok]

sometimes we get softball sized hail here, no confirmed sightings of that this time around.

[schild]

And... what were you doing while the sky was falling?

Hiding between 2 walls a bookshelf and an arcade machine.

nice emo post, btw.

thx

sometimes we get softball sized hail here, no confirmed sightings of that this time around.

HOW IN THE FUCK

WHEN PEOPLE ASK ABOUT AUSTIN

DOES THIS NOT GET MENTIONED.

[Hindenburg]

Hiding between 2 walls a bookshelf and an arcade machine.

Serves you right for being a coward. The fat would have shielded you on the way to the car.

[Soln]

insurance won't cover this at all?  Got AAA?

[ahoythematey]

HOW IN THE FUCK

WHEN PEOPLE ASK ABOUT AUSTIN

DOES THIS NOT GET MENTIONED.

Too busy avoiding panhandlers trying to shake us down.  Also, having lived in different parts of tornado alley my whole life, it's pretty easy to accept hail as "normal" with storms.  The real question you need to ask is why the fuck are there so few basements in Texas?  You'd think a place famous for it's natural disasters would maybe have more.

[Salamok]

too expensive to dig em, all limestone once you go down a foot.  Only time you see a basement in austin is if it is part of your 20 foot foundation cause you built on steep grade.  Insurance covers it if you have comprehensive even so my deduct is 1k and it will doubtless cause a rate hike.

[schild]

too expensive to dig em, all limestone once you go down a foot.  Only time you see a basement in austin is if it is part of your 20 foot foundation cause you built on steep grade.  Insurance covers it if you have comprehensive even so my deduct is 1k and it will doubtless cause a rate hike.

A rate hike for bad weather? That's egotistical of them.

Edit: I think my deductible is $400 or $500. The amount of money it will cost to fix this would be extraordinary, it would probably cost less to buy an entire after market fx kit for my car, lower it, and put a stereo in than to find a RSX Type-S frame in that color. There's no way a body shop can ever repair all the dents, it would be like decoding the fucking Rosetta Stone.

[Samwise]

Their logic is probably "if they can't be bothered to put their car in a garage when it's raining yeti balls, fuck 'em".  I mean, I know not everyone has a garage, but that seems like the way an insurance adjuster would think.

[schild]

Not my apartment. But what most of them look like now.

[schild]

Their logic is probably "if they can't be bothered to put their car in a garage when it's raining yeti balls, fuck 'em".  I mean, I know not everyone has a garage, but that seems like the way an insurance adjuster would think.

The lack of garages outside of downtown Austin is SHOCKING actually. Unless you have a house or an apartment built after 1995.

[Merusk]

HOW IN THE FUCK

WHEN PEOPLE ASK ABOUT AUSTIN

DOES THIS NOT GET MENTIONED.

Too busy avoiding panhandlers trying to shake us down.  Also, having lived in different parts of tornado alley my whole life, it's pretty easy to accept hail as "normal" with storms.  The real question you need to ask is why the fuck are there so few basements in Texas?  You'd think a place famous for it's natural disasters would maybe have more.

Hey look, something I can answer! 

Having worked for 3 years on houses built in Dallas/ Ft. Worth, here's what I was told.

Aside from the limestone:

1) Your soil sucks and can't support shit.  This means you need post-tensioned slab-on-grade construction to "float" the building on the surface.  Basically, where most of the country has footers and foundation walls, you guys have to turn your entire building into the footings.
2) Expansive soils.  High clay content means it shrinks like a motherfucker when dry and expands even more when wet.   Build when the soil is dry, and you find yourself having to resist a shit ton more lateral pressure from the expanding soil. This means thicker foundation walls with a lot more rebar in them.  That's expensive, and puts your $250k home into the $350k price range. Build when it's wet and the soil pulls away and you run into problem #1 again.
3) No need to dig due to the high frost line.  Places up north are already halfway there when having to place their footings and avoid frost heave.  Laterals around Cincinnati have to go a minimum of 30" below the surface to avoid this, at Cleveland ~48" and deeper the farther north you go.  It's not much more to just say 'fuck it' excavate a hole and, ta-da, basement.

[Aez]

[Ookii]

I'd like to post a picture of where you moved from to provide the necessary contrast to your hail ridden photos.  That way we can truly understand the travesty that occurred in Austin today.



It was a bit too sunny today.

[schild]

Don't miss it.