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What Do You See From Your Window?
Topic Started: Feb 23 2013, 05:29 PM (5,770 Views)
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Inanna
Jun 10 2014, 08:08 PM
Have you checked with your car insurance agent about it because they maybe able to pay for repairs, that this kind of damage might be covered by them. Here in the US, if a person has comprehensive (full) insurance on their car, hail damage is usually covered.
Yes, the first thing I did when I could switch on again safely the computer was to write a mail to my insurance agent. I told him about the gutter and told that I'll check the car in the morning. I'm now waiting for his news and assessor. As I've got a full insurance for my car, the insurance company should pay the repairs, the only "problem" may be the amount of the excess/deductible. Moreover, I don't know how they can repair bumps on car bodies? huh?!??

I asked him also how you can protect a car from hail (with heavy cardboard? a colleague told me that her neighbours had put blankets on their car)? There has been a warning for hail but if you don't know how to protect things, it just an useless warning. Except closing all the shutters and thinking about waking my son whose roon is under the roof for going in a better protected part of the house I didn't know what to do except watching the hail falling!

However I not consider myself too much unhappy because some of my colleagues had their verandas or roof lights broken (the same in our factory too) and I saw on TV news that in some place the hailstones were so heavy and large that they broke car's windshield of broke car's roofs.

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Inanna
Jun 10 2014, 08:08 PM
How did your garden fare?

My garden is essentialy composed with grass, I haven't got lot's of plants or trees in it, so it went well.

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Jun 10 2014, 08:08 PM
I'm curious if the clouds looked green when this was happening. Reports of clouds having a green hue is common during hail storms.
I don't really know because it happened at midnight so it was dark.

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What is NOAA?

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Inanna
Jun 10 2014, 08:08 PM
If you're able to count the layers in the hailstone, that will tell you how many times the storm blew the stone upward before the stone became too heavy and fell out of the cloud.
I read it also in a children book of my son bout the weather and I showed it to him in the morning. The stone stored in my freezer have four layers.

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Jun 11 2014, 04:24 PM
What is NOAA?

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NOAA -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- a federal agency here in the states. Lots of good information on their website. :D

Not sure if the 'skin' of the roof is removable, but the shell and the windows can be replaced. If it hailed so hard that it bent the frame, then the assessor will likely 'total the car out'/cash out the policy. Same thing will happen if the repairs cost more than the car is worth. (Forgive me if you already knew this, just relaying my experience.)

A blanket might help for marble and pea sized hail, but I think once you start getting into golf/ping pong ball sized hail and bigger, nothing other than being under a roof is really going to help it. Fortunately, pea sized hail is the biggest I've every experienced. Saw a show once where people were caught on a ferris wheel and it hailed golf ball to baseball sized hail. That was horrifying to watch, couldn't imagine what it was like to be caught in it. I've seen shows too where people are trying to chase tornadoes and their car windows are shattered by golf ball to baseball sized hail. One second the window's fine, the next the window looks like someone hit it all over with a baseball bat. That would be very scary to drive through, I think.
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Jun 12 2014, 08:44 AM
Not sure if the 'skin' of the roof is removable, but the shell and the windows can be replaced. If it hailed so hard that it bent the frame, then the assessor will likely 'total the car out'/cash out the policy. Same thing will happen if the repairs cost more than the car is worth.


A colleague had gone to the car repair shop this morning. They said to her that they change the hood and could straighten out the other parts of car's body. Fortunately the hail wasn't heavier enough in my case for bending the frame.

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Edited by Bionika, Jun 12 2014, 03:17 PM.
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Inanna
Jun 12 2014, 08:44 AM
Bionika
Jun 11 2014, 04:24 PM
What is NOAA?

Bionika
NOAA -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- a federal agency here in the states. Lots of good information on their website. :D

Forgive me if you already knew this, just relaying my experience

Inanna, thank for your information.
Every experience is useful.

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HAHA! Hill behind us is socked in with scud clouds. You can tell it's been raining hard when the hill gets fogged in. BTW, even though we've gotten a lot of rain from Norbert, the news reports are exaggerating things a bit. Noah is not floating around Arizona in an ark. It's not like the Midwest, where the river banks overflow and the water stays for days on end. Crews unclogged the drains on the I 10 and the water was gone in about 20 minutes. It's pretty much the same as a heavy monsoon, the area is flooded for about 30 to 60 minutes and then it's down to a trickle. Lot of times the only way you can tell it rained the next day is from the dirt and pebbles strewn across the roadways or if you're really lucky you can still see some standing water in the river. We've gotten about 1.5" so far. Just wished it could have rained a bit more like this during the actual monsoon season. It was kind of paltry this year. I won't be surprised if there will be people up in Phoenix complaining that the people on the I10 should get slapped with "the stupid driver law". It wouldn't surprise me, even though nobody would have really thought it would have flooded beforehand. ?><
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Sep 8 2014, 01:42 PM
HAHA! Hill behind us is socked in with scud clouds. You can tell it's been raining hard when the hill gets fogged in. BTW, even though we've gotten a lot of rain from Norbert, the news reports are exaggerating things a bit. Noah is not floating around Arizona in an ark. It's not like the Midwest, where the river banks overflow and the water stays for days on end. Crews unclogged the drains on the I 10 and the water was gone in about 20 minutes. It's pretty much the same as a heavy monsoon, the area is flooded for about 30 to 60 minutes and then it's down to a trickle. Lot of times the only way you can tell it rained the next day is from the dirt and pebbles strewn across the roadways or if you're really lucky you can still see some standing water in the river. We've gotten about 1.5" so far. Just wished it could have rained a bit more like this during the actual monsoon season. It was kind of paltry this year. I won't be surprised if there will be people up in Phoenix complaining that the people on the I10 should get slapped with "the stupid driver law". It wouldn't surprise me, even though nobody would have really thought it would have flooded beforehand. ?><

Still sounds quite scary!
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The monsoons here can literally get yfy , but I've learned to just not go out in them unless I absolutely have to. Living out here, my regards to rain is that there is 'just rain' and 'RAIN' , the latter meaning you're soaking wet by the time you get to your front door after the 20-30 foot dash from your car.

One night (may have been 2007, 2008) I woke up, having nodded off on the couch, because a monsoon was rolling in. Asked my husband if Guy, our male tabby, was still outside, to which he said yes. Went outside to the front porch to see if I could fetch him, but it was already pouring rain (and thundering and lightning), so I tried to call to him to see if he would make a dash for it. Nope. Waited for the rain to die down, usually if you give it about 15 minutes, it will die off to 'just rain', where you can be out there for a few minutes before getting soaked. And I'm waiting and waiting and after about 20 minutes, it does die down, for about 2 seconds, and then, honest to God, I've never seen that much rain in that short of time in my entire life. Have you ever seen it rain so hard that the rain looks like it's coming down in slow motion? The raindrops literally looked like they were a couple of feet long. Still no cat and at this point I'm praying that he's just waiting it out under a car. Five minutes later, I'm thinking I'm not going to be surprised if Noah is coming down the street in an ark. Ten minutes after that, I'm hoping that the wash that's 30 feet behind the apartment isn't overflowing its banks, because it certainly sounds like it's overflowing its banks. And I'm standing in an inch of water. (Fortunately, the city inspector insisted that the property owner build 6" slabs for the apartments to sit on because the area was in the wash's '50 year flood plain' before approving the construction or the apartments would have been flooded too.) Still no cat. I go inside to towel off because I'm drenched. Ten minutes later, Guy comes in, his underside completely soaked. Figured he hunkered down under a car and subsequently ended up laying in an inch or two deep puddle till the rain was light enough to make a beeline for the door. The university's rain gauge was only about 4 blocks north of us, found out it rained about .85" in just that 15 minutes. But it just barely made the local news because it only happened in about a 1/2 mile square area. And it was just a brief mention of the rain gauge reading.

There was also the time I was in Southwest airport terminal and a downburst cell moved across TIA. The visibility got so bad you couldn't see the end of the gate where it connects to the airplane from the window right next to it. The rain was not only flying sideways, it some places, you could actually see it flying upward. And the lightning hitting the terminal itself. The thunder sounded like someone lighting sticks of dynamite and throwing them on the roof. My flight got delayed for 4 hours because the plane couldn't even come in to land, just kept circling the storm until they were low on fuel, still couldn't land because of the storm and had to divert to Phoenix 100 miles away to refuel and come back and the storms finally died off enough over Tucson for them to land. However, since I was going to LA, we had to fly through some of them to get there. That was an interesting day and I was sure glad I had a cocktail before I got on the flight because I'm not nuts about flying in the first place LOL. There was a couple that was sitting next to me when the flight started getting bumpy that told me they were frequent flyers and had flown through a lot of monsoons and that this was nothing when I expressed that I was worried. Don't think I wanted to know how bumpy it got on some of their flights. O8YT

This time, though, yeah, it did rain a lot, but not as hard as I've seen. It was just lasted longer and was over a bigger area than a typical monsoon. And a lot less thunder, lightning, and wind than a typical monsoon too. On top of that, some areas are prone to flooding because the city or county doesn't build a bridge over the wash, they build the street through the wash. The logic given is that the road may be impassible for only a few hours on only a few days a year, so why waste the money to build a bridge? I just don't think they took the amount of people who would attempt to drive through the wash when it's flooded.
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Thank for sharing your experiments, it's very interesting.

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Inanna, you have a real flair for descriptions! Have you ever done any writing?
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A BEAUTIFUL bird has been at the feeder this afternoon, pecking at the suet! I was trying to get his photo (through the window) but he kept flying away. I don't want to make him too scared to come back... but he looks exactly like this - and is apparently a woodpecker!

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Yes, it is very beautiful.

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