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Location: big island | i hope none of our members suffered damage from monday's softball-sized hailstorm in new york.
hail damaged vehicles |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I don't think that was NY... the license plates say Kansas. |
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Location: Jet City | Kansas is where the bigguns are. That's where all my family is. They have "Paintless dent repair" places on every corner, kinda like coffe places here in Seattle.
They held the record for the largest hail ever recorded until recently. I think OK or NE took the title away.
BTW, rooftops take a beating too. If you don't have hail insurance, eventually you'll be paying |
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Location: Jet City | Yep, Manhattan, KS.
Home of KSU and Fort Riley |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | They had a tornado in Brooklyn last year so why not a little hail? |
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Location: big island | whoops! i didn't know there was a manhattan in kansas and i didn't take note of the license plates for lookin' at the hail damage. my bad. |
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Location: Tennessee | The Pink Taco Restaurant. Cliff, you can take the commentary on this one. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | The Little Apple. Kansas State class of 75. Me and Steve Grogan. Go Wildcats. That was back in the days when 1 and 10 was considered a good season for K-State football.
Often the baseball sized hail would be combined with 40 mph winds. Great for the glass companies and body shops. |
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Location: Jet City | My son will be very close to there later this month for harvest. He gets to drive a grain truck. He thinks it's going to be fun. More power to him. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | We had some small (pea to marble sized) hail here in Omaha last night.
If you aren't familiar with these storms, the thing to remember is that they are massively localized. You can get slammed with hail and the guy a block over gets nothing. And they come and go quick. With the one that passed through last night, we maybe get 15 minutes or so of heavy rain, then it was effectively over.
Every once in a while, one will sweep through a new car lot...lots of good discounts on "slightly hail damaged" cars.
And the roof stuff is true too. Generally speaking, you never actually pay (directly) to have your roof replaced around here. You do it on the installment plan through your homeowners insurance. It all works out the same in the end, of course. But its pretty rare that a roof can go 20 or 25 years without suffering hail damage. |
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Location: Kansas | Goooo Wildcats!
Another day of fun weather on tap for today. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | One of my jobs as a kid was to simulate hail damage on a North Dakota State experiment farm. Although that may sound fun, it was not. We'd get a plot of wheat and it would say something like 2/3 6 inches. That meant we'd crawl through the wheat and take every 3 stalks and bend 2 of them down 6 inches from the top. The idea was to see how much wheat was recovered after a hail storm went through if there wasn't time to plow it under and replant it. I think a got about $1.25 an hour, but it was slow work. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Well, I thought it sounded fun, until you described it. Now I don't think it sounds fun at all. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I'd still have to try it for a month to really know.... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Learned to drive a truck on that job, too. Only a couple incidents involving backing off the road and into a muddy field and almost crashing into a grainery. No other cars to hit at least. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I was in D.C. earlier this week. Some pretty fierce storms passed through town and Virginia to the south. I find the Kansas picture of the cratered back window quite interesting. I've never seen damage like that before. The softball-sized hail passed through leaving holes like what might have been caused by cannon balls but didn't shatter the glass. |
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OT: manhattan hail