I did a post last night talking about a near miss we had with a storm capable of producing tornados. The doppler was indicating strong circular wind formations just as it was passing over Amarillo, but fortunatly didn't develop fully into tornados.Well, it's daylight and I just went outside to see if there was any storm damage. I actually wasn't expecting to see any, as I didn't think the hail got big enough...wrong!
my Grand Cherokee is a mass of dents, as is the low miles Mark viii I had just bought, and my neices Ranger. My wife left for work before sunrise and hasn't seen her '12 Camry in daylight...I suspect it'll be totalled.
The fiber composite roof over the garage where my '57 is has hundreds of holes in it. Garage windows smashed out water and debris all over the car, toolboxes got soaked. I got out of the garage quick when I realized I was standing in water and lots of power cords around. I don't think the '57 got damaged badly, but I need to go back in for another look after I get dressed.
I'm gonna have a hell of a mess to clean up..I guess the house rebuilding is gonna be on hold while I reroof.
Rich - sorry to hear of your damage. If there is anyway to help please let me know. While we have never met face to face, I feel we are friends and I know you have a lot of friends on this forum. I am glad your family is OK.
Sorry to hear that. Hope you get everything squared up as soon as possible. Good Luck
Rich that is really not good news! So sorry to hear it. Blessing is both you and your family are OK, rest of that stuff can be fixed...
Good Luck Rich!
Thanks guys...appreciate the concern. Other than the DD cars, not too much damage other than the old roof on the house that was slated for replacement next year, and my shed/car shelter. The area where my car is was added on to a large shed (20x38) that I had roofed just 3 or 4 years ago, and those shingles got beat to heck. The area where my car is started out as a covered carport affair that I later enclosed. I had roofed that with a asphalt fiberglass reinforced corrugated sheets figuring that would be better in the Texas sun than metal. The "temporary structure" wasn't built strong enough to support weight of the correct sheathing/shingle method.
The bad news is the golfball size hail we got punched about 300 holes in that roof, but apparently the hail busted up on impact so...the good news... no damage other that water and small debris inside. We had a posibility of baseball size hail, thank god that didn't happen. My wife just called from work as she finally went out in daylight to see if there was damage....almost had to be as bad as my Jeep got beat up...her Camry is wasted from the gille all the was back...hood, roof, fenders,rear quarters,etc.
I got a 20' x 100' of 6 mil plastic to try and cover the roof, but I may be shoveling against the tide with even the normal wind conditions we have in this area. I think I'll just clean and dry the car off, get my tool boxes drained and dried, and cover everything with plastic inside. It may be a week before the insurance adjusters can get here with all the claims they've got going in different areas.
WOW! that's bad news. I'm sorry you had so much damage to deal with. I guess a small silver lining in the cloud is it wasn't a tornado that hit..
Good luck Rich.
I hear this all the time Rich from Bob in Wellington.......very sorry.
Thanks guys. Uninsured damage was minimal....with no tornado and the hail not any bigger than it was I feel very fortunate.
Jeff...speaking of Bob...I just got to wondering...with all the trips I've made thru salvage yards in areas notorious for weather, I don't recall ever noticing hail damage on any of the parts cars...is that odd or what? I had several thousands of dollars in hail damage on my Jeep 5 or 6 years ago. Never had them fixed. Within a year or so they all disappeared. May be same thing going on in junk yards.
I'm getting my garage dried out slowly but surely...it needed a good cleaning anyways. Temps in the 90's today, and with all that moisture in there, it's like being in a sauna. I am so relieved there is NO damage to my '57. That really would have sucked big time. The pictures I'll post later tonight will show how close I was to having big time damage. There are so many holes in the roof, it looks like a disco hall in there...took some neat pictures of the reflections in the '57's paint.
Shortly after I had moved to Amarillo, they had a hail storm come thru with baseball size hail. One of the hospitals lost every window on 2 sides of their 6 story tower. I drove to the Lincoln/Mercury dealer just out of curiosity, and it looked like a war zone. You could literally have put a baseball inside the dents. I counted 11 places on one vans windshield alone. It was sickning to see all those new Lincolns pretty much destroyed. There was actually a salesman on duty who asked if I needed any help, to which I replied I was just curious. He said come back in a week or so after the insurance adjusters were done..."they'd probably be taking 3 or 4 thousand of the retail price." I just replied..3 or 4 thousand?..I would think starting at 1/2 price would get you near a bargaining price. I don't know what ended up happening, but for a while they were trying to sell 45-50K cars without a straight panel on them for "thousands off"
Wow. glad to hear no body got knocked out from that!
Hate to hear about the damage Rich..hope you can get everything secured soon.
[quote author=RICH MUISE
"I am so relieved there is NO damage to my '57. That really would have sucked big time. The pictures I'll post later tonight will show how close I was to having big time damage. There are so many holes in the roof, it looks like a disco hall in there...took some neat pictures of the reflections in the '57's paint. [/quote]
Wow Rich!! This is awful. I'm thankful that you and your family are safe, and that it was not a full blown tornado. I'm also happy that your 57 did not get damaged. I hope that the insurance will come through for you. You have a lot of friends on this forum that are wishing the very best for you. I'm far away over here in Mass., but you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
Maybe more of us should give thought to putting insurance on our old cars even if they are still under construction/restoration. Jay
Sorry to hear of the distruction, glad everyone is ok, Good to hear you have insurance, the weather has been nuts all over the country, Mark
Quote from: Frankenstein57 on 2013-05-29 21:30
Sorry to hear of the distruction, glad everyone is ok, Good to hear you have insurance, the weather has been nuts all over the country, Mark
Ditto, glad you're ok and to think we've been bitching around about unending heavy rain and lower than normal temps. Don't understand how you in the midwest deal with all that crazy weather.
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Rich:
Echo, the news that you and your family are safe from that storm. Really bummed to hear about the damage caused to your transportation cars, but glad to hear your 57 escaped major damage. Out here we are subject to our occasional earthquakes, but it seems like the weather throughout the Nation has been especially brutal to so many people. Good luck on your reconstruction, hope you have a good shelter for riding out tornado's. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and those affected by the many storms we've had this year.
Bob
57 AGIN
Thanks again. I was reading a yahoo report on the most disaster prone states in the country..Texas ranks #1. I got a look at my wife's '12 Camry when she got home last night. The only two panels without damage are the passenger side doors. Everything else got hammered. I wouldn't be surprised if repair estimates are in the 15-20K range. Looks like we'll have some decisions to make on that car after we get the estimates.
some pics of why I said I felt real fortunate not having more damage than I did. This is about as close a call as you can get with my '57. All the reflections in the '57's paint are holes in the roofing material. In case you're trying to figure out what my roof is, on most of the roof, I actually have those blue tarps attached to the rafters under the asphalt/fiberglass roof panels. The hail punched holes in the roof, but never got past the plastic.
Unbelievable!! That's to close for comfort, you were so fortunate that the 57 didn't get damaged.
Damn, Rich! (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/TomIII/smilies/eek.gif) What a bummer!
Around here the biggest hail is no more than the size of a pea if even that big. Good!
I usually just have to worry about volcanoes covering us with some real nasty ash, the occasional 100+ mph windstorm & 9.2 earthquakes that go on for about 4.5 minutes like in 1964. The big quakes are the scariest.
Not the worst by far but here's the "Main Drag" in March 1964 Anchorage.
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/TomIII/Earthquake/EARTHQUAKE4thAVE.jpg)
We get that pea sized hail here also, ground gets covered and looks like a dusting of snow that somehow got past the trees. Have seen many pictures of hail damage like Rich posted have however never seen how it looks on the ground. just what kind of buildup is common? With golf ball size hail it must be significant. Should be fun driving in it.
We've been having some tropical like rain here, kind you can't hardly see thru. Last night we were meeting some friends for dinner and one of them was late [unusual] as it was coming down so hard traffic had to slow down to 15mph on I-5 due to poor visibility. Not to mention standing water.
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Zap...after about 1/2 hour of hail, we had about 1 1/2 deep everywhere. couldn't see the ground. Last year there was an area not too far from here that had a foot deep of hail...never seen anything even close to that much. In Colorado about '82 or so, we had hail about tennis ball size. Sounded like handgranades. I'll never forget the guy across the street trying to get 3 new cars into a 2 car garage...and you know how big 80's cars were. He was running around holding a piece of plywood over his head..ended up getting 2 knuckles broken. The corvette next door was totally wasted....he's like me...always have so much stuff in a garage you can't get a car in.
Rich;
First, a belated glad you are okay and sorry for your damage. Your insurance should cover most of your loss and you will end up with a new roof on your house. I never had to replace a roof in Colorado due to our hail exposure. The last Insurance statistics I saw for this area was the expectation to replace a roof every 7 years. Texas can't be very far behind.
You mentioned that 1982 hail storm which I remember well. The house I was living in had 37 broken window panes and asphalt shingles on the roof were completely gone and most of the roof sheeting needed replacement. One of my kids left a bicycle out in the yard and the metal tubular frame was dented!
Anyway, good luck in getting everything back to normal. Your 57 will wait for your attention! Al
Thanks Al...I probably won't be making up there for the Goodguys show btw, got too much going on here now and the wife is talking about Alburquerque for a weekend soon anyways. If I change my mind, I'll definetly give you and Marty a ring.
Glad you and the family are ok. It reminds me of a 66 Mustang I bought for my wife way back when all the inspections were due in the month of April.The storm hit about on the 29th and the car was really dented and a broken windshield. I had just rebuilt the engine a week earlier.If it weren't for bad luck , we'd have none at all it seems. Traded it off for a Delta 88. She was happy about the storm after that.
Thanks JJack...by the way I looked on the map to see how far Fredricksburg is from me.. 7 1/2 hrs. Guess I'll pass on that swapmeet.
Quote from: RICH MUISE on 2013-05-29 15:37
Thanks guys. Uninsured damage was minimal....with no tornado and the hail not any bigger than it was I feel very fortunate.
Jeff...speaking of Bob...I just got to wondering...with all the trips I've made thru salvage yards in areas notorious for weather, I don't recall ever noticing hail damage on any of the parts cars...is that odd or what? I had several thousands of dollars in hail damage on my Jeep 5 or 6 years ago. Never had them fixed. Within a year or so they all disappeared. May be same thing going on in junk yards.
Ya know.. thats true Rich.... I have walked his yard so many times..and there is no evidence of hail damage.... then again.... 30's,40's,50's,60's car were not using metal panels like tin foil as they do today.