FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU MOTHER NATURE, FUCK YOU

[Oban]

At least you got a warning.

Weather warnings here are written by a joint venture between Redstate and Fox News.

We did have gusts of wind clocked at up to 115 kilometers per hour, but no hail.

[NiX]

As quick as it started, it went. Apparently we caught the southern edge of it.

[rattran]

Dark green skies, piles of 1" hail, a couple inches of rain in an hour. Sometimes the midwest sucks.

The hail seems to have blasted the aggregate off the shingles on my roof.   

<moved here for great justice>

[Salamok]

when the adjuster comes out to inspect your roof be sure and have him check your siding and windows as well.

[voodoolily]

In other news, it rained all night in Portland, Oregon, followed by some sunshine. More rain and sunshine expected intermittently throughout the day.

[rattran]

when the adjuster comes out to inspect your roof be sure and have him check your siding and windows as well.

Roof needed to be replaced soon anyway, and no other damage. I'm going to save my insurance rates from going up and just pay to have the roof redone.

[Salamok]

when the adjuster comes out to inspect your roof be sure and have him check your siding and windows as well.

Roof needed to be replaced soon anyway, and no other damage. I'm going to save my insurance rates from going up and just pay to have the roof redone.

my insurance co shelled out 5k for a new roof they would have to raise my premiums by quite a bit (like triple em) for me to pay for that out of pocket.

[shiznitz]

when the adjuster comes out to inspect your roof be sure and have him check your siding and windows as well.

Roof needed to be replaced soon anyway, and no other damage. I'm going to save my insurance rates from going up and just pay to have the roof redone.

It is unusual for your rates to increase for an unforseen or extraordinary event like this, but it is certainly possible.  We made a $7k claim for some basement water damage back in 2003. We got a check and our rates did not jump other than the normal annual pricing creep of 2-3%. 

Then again, we had Chubb which is known to be expensive but very good about paying without hassle. We have since dumped Chubb and saved $1,000 a year for the last 3 years.

[Yegolev]

<moved here for great justice>

When did you become a moderator?

[schild]

<moved here for great justice>

When did you become a moderator?

 

[squirrel]

In other news, it rained all night in Portland, Oregon, followed by some sunshine. More rain and sunshine expected intermittently throughout the day.

Pfff. Come to Vancouver. We'll show you schizo weather :P

[Sky]

There's an old NY saying: "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes."

[Cyrrex]

There's an old saying that everyone on planet earth uses: "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes."

FIFY. 

[Sky]

ZOMG CLIMATE CHANGE

[Teleku]

There's an old saying that everyone on planet earth uses: "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes."

FIFY. 

Unless of course you live in Southern California.

[Oban]

There were a couple of days in February when it was cloudy.

[Yegolev]

There's an old saying that everyone on planet earth uses: "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes."

FIFY. 

Unless of course you live in Southern California.

I've noticed that this only applies if you don't move around.

[schild]

I just went through the entire list of GM dealerships getting abandoned to find cars way way under dealer price, the closest one to Austin is San Marcos. I'm trying to figure out how that's possible. There's a shitload of terrible dealerships here. Hell, I went to half of them >_<

[Miasma]

I think most GM dealerships have until next year (unless they go bankrupt and decide to speed things up), the Chrysler ones get kicked next month though.

[Teleku]

I just went through the entire list of GM dealerships getting abandoned to find cars way way under dealer price, the closest one to Austin is San Marcos. I'm trying to figure out how that's possible. There's a shitload of terrible dealerships here. Hell, I went to half of them >_<

Because you live in Texas where people will continue to buy shitty gas guzzling cars long after every other intelligent person in the world stopped?

[Oban]

From three weeks ago, the one fucking time I did not park in the garage, only three hundred dollars worth of damage to my car:

[Sky]

For the summer, I tend to park in the driveway. Couple weeks ago they were calling for golf-ball hail, I cleared out my work shop and pulled the truck in. My fiancee was giggling at me all night.

But I would really be upset if the new FJ got all dinged up! My Ranger was (is) dinged to fuck from parking in the lot at work.

[Teleku]

I drove a beat up Ford Ranger as my first vehical for about 6 years.  It was great!  I never had to worry about it getting beat up or dinged.  And if people were riding my ass or driving stupidly in a parking lot, I never had to worry either, because I would happily ram my truck into their pretty little cars at their expense.  There wasn't anything bad left I could do to mine.

I'd say another advantage was not having to worry about getting it stolen, but somebody did try to steal the god damn thing once when I lived in San Diego.  I came out one morning to find the door unlocked and slightly open.  Getting inside, I found that the dumb ass had tried to stick some sort of screw tool into the ignition (mechanics told me they use it to rip the ignition out to hot wire), got it stuck, twisted to hard, and broke it off in my ignition.  Then apparently fled, as he didn't even take the pile of change I had in the cup holder.  I'd say complete dumb ass, but then he was the guy trying to steal an old beat up Ford Ranger, so that should go without saying.

[schild]

Just saying...

GLAD I DIDN'T GET A CAR YET.

[Aez]

Not a good idea to tempt fate.  Just saying.

[Yegolev]

I don't understand.  Did that fucker Mark Murray call forth icy wrath again?  Or am I tumbling into the sarchasm?

[WayAbvPar]

Heh I heard there was some nasty weather in Dallas- was wondering if it got over to you 

[Trippy]

There was hail in Austin again.

[MahrinSkel]

There was hail in Austin again.

Yes, there was.  Not as bad as last time, but it will still generate another round of "Hail Sale" signs and keep the ding-repair gypsies that have been swarming around in the area for a few more weeks.

This time, I didn't dodge it completely.  I'm watching the radar tracking and listening to the wind blow when I hear the "pop!" of hail hitting the skylight.  I open the garage door and watch fitful bits of pea-sized stuff hitting the cars and driveway.  Just as I'm about to decide that it isn't worth getting wet for, a golf-ball sized chunk bounces off the driveway and into the garage.

2 minutes later, I'm soaking wet and have a few sore spots on my scalp and shoulders, but the car windshields are protected by plywood and cardboard without taking any hits bad enough to cause cracks.  1 minute after that, the hail (which only dropped a few more bigger than pea-sized) stops, about a minute after that there's not a drop of rain.

We were right at the southern edge of this one, which tracked just a bit further north than the last but was much broader.  But at least I learned how long it would take to cover the windshields.

--Dave

[Phildo]

Didn't even know it was coming until it happened, but my car made it out just fine.

[Yegolev]

The lack of preparedness amongst the locals is somewhat mysterious.

[Velorath]

We were right at the southern edge of this one, which tracked just a bit further north than the last but was much broader.  But at least I learned how long it would take to cover the windshields.

Now you just need to find out how long it would take you to board up your windows in case of zombies.

[Salamok]

The lack of preparedness amongst the locals is somewhat mysterious.

When it is lightly cloudy and 90 deg outside you aren't exactly thinking to yourself gee looks like teh armegeddon hail is upon us i better go get my shit under cover, yet 15 minutes later there it is.  Predicting the weather in Austin is a tough job, the weatherman is rarely right.  If you don't have a garage there isn't a whole lot you can do about it anyway, except maybe flee the city but then you would look like a fool for listening to the weatherman.  

edit: also the unattached plywood protection scheme for your car parked outside when there are confirmed funnel clouds in the area is a recipe for disaster.

[MahrinSkel]

Nearest funnel clouds were 30 miles away (and turned out to not actually be funnel clouds, the weather radar never showed them and the pictures and video sent in turned out to be just pillar cloud formations).  I know the signs of a tornado, especially the "freight train" rumble you hear when they're within a couple of miles, I wasn't just rushing out to throw my body between the car and a twister.

Modern weather radar can spot a tornado formation well before it generates a visible funnel.  If the radar says there are no tornadoes, and eyewitnesses say there are, I'm going with the radar unless those witnesses are calling in from their bathtubs, several hundred feet in the air.

--Dave

[Yegolev]

I was just thinking I'd possibly keep some ratty blankets nearby.  Hail comes from thunderstorms, but yea.  Maybe my idea of the amount of hail in Austin has been inflated.