My Honda has no rear wind shield, a broken taillight, and severe damage to the plastic body parts. Also, major dents.
My Toyota is minus the passenger side outside rearview mirror, and has less severe dents.
Many homes and apartments near me with broken windows and roof damage. All of my friends have car damage.
The tornado touched down a few miles earlier and lifted, touching down a few miles beyond me. It tracked right over me. Dumping hail.
Again.
Same exact scenario last year. Cost me the rear windshield of my Lincoln (from flying debris, not hail) that time.
And yes, I have actually been in a tornado before. 3 times.
DO NOT SAY: “Why even live in Tornado Alley? That’s just asking for trouble.” EVERYONE lives where weather or other natural events may threaten life and property. It’s part of living on Earth, you see. Live in LA? Earthquakes. Live in Minnisota? Blizzards. You get the idea…
Sorry about your cars. Glad you’re OK. If it helps, you could pretend that the cars got banged up driving through a crowd of screaming fans, who wanted nothing more than a lock of your hair or the waistband of your underpants.
NCB, glad to hear that those twisters missed you. And I feel for you and all the hail damage to your cars. When I lived in NE (years ago), a week after my mom got her new car, it got massive hail damage from one of The Great Plains famous spring storms. She thought the insurance company was going to have a stroke when she called them.
Did you save some hail in the freezer? Got picts of the huge hail? OOOOOO I miss seeing freakish weather… I do not miss being in and/or experiencing freakish weather…
Oh yeah… why do you live there? Just move! :::runs away::: just kidding
I was having supper at my friend’s house when the sirens went off. Camera was at home.
Then, I became a conduit of sorts for phone calls, as my cell was working well. Other friend’s service was spotty. So, when one called, I would pass on the good words of the previous (safe) freinds who called.
The odds of actually getting hit by a tornado are pretty slim I would expect. I think you can live in the Alley and not feel too guilty about bringin’ all dat grief on yoself.
What kills me are the folks who build their homes in a flood plain, which is their right, right on the riverbank, which is their right, and then get their puss on the news when their house floods, again, and they make all these sad faces like God singled them out or something. I know it sucks to get flooded, but Jiminy Christmas, do some friggin’ homework!
Oh yeah, we get some hail here…sometimes as big as golf balls. Glad you’re OK.
My condolences. I’m just glad that you weren’t hurt or and tornado didn’t touch down on your neighborhood.
I know what it’s like to live in a tornado-prone area. Not long before I shipped out to basic, the area where I lived had FIVE tornados tear through at once. A friend’s house was completely destroyed.
The only reason those fucktards build their houses on top of rivers is because the federal government insures what no reputable insurer would go anywhere near. So every time there’s a flood, your tax money is being used to rebuild a brand new house on the same fucking spot.
My comprehensive would cover the windshield. After deductable, which I have set pretty high. Will have to check on the dings and shit, but I think it does.
If severe hail damage happens often enough, it might be worth your money to build a garage or a carport or something like that. A tarp reinforced with plywood and two-by-fours might be a good thing, in a pinch.
Sorry 'bout your damage NCB. I sympathize. I was in the May 3rd tornado recovering from abdominal surgery hauling a 20 pound cat to a tornado shelter.
yesterday and today (or the day before and last night…whatever. I work the night shift and get confused), we had a Code Black at the hospital I work at, which means “we think a tornado might be coming”, so we have to haul all our patients (kids and babies) out of their rooms and into the halls. If they were bedfast, we had to haul them out in beds, if they were on oxygen or monitors, those had to go out with them. Thrills for two nights in a row.
You big silly! “Acts of God” relates to at least half of the covered perils under your comprensive coverage on your car policy. That’s where junk like flooding, hail, wind damage, falling objects, missiles (not the military ones, those are exclided as “acts of war” is handled.
I hate hail.
We’ve had cars with some pretty serious damage (no broken windows though). Every time it starts to hail I sit there repeating “please no hail. Rain, rain is good. Hail is bad. Nice rain drops. Please rain”
Not even close to the same scale - but I was most distressed last year when the hail got my tulips.
Thanks for the link, SA. That was on the Belle Isle Bridge part of I-44, an elevated part of the freeway that passes through the Penn Square Mall area. Penn Square Mall sits on land that used to be Belle Isle Lake (about a century ago). Some 2 miles from where I live.
