Tornados too close for comfort

[Ocean Lover]

Somewhere earlier I mentioned our lovely Ohio weather. This morning started out to be beautiful summer day in October. Tonight? Really bad storms and a few tornados really close. We spent the dinner hour in the basement! I heard on the news there was golf ball size hail in several areas and baseball size hail reported also!! It didn't get that bad here at home. Mr. OL called home and said they went into tornando drill mode at work and could hear the storm pass over. He said it sounded like a really loud train and you could hear all the hail. An hour later he went out to check on his car in the parking lot. He said it looked like ice cubes were laying on the ground everywhere. He has many hail dents in his car and the driver's side mirror is broken. Is hail damage repairable?

 

[DD]

Speaking as a survivor of the Great Hail Storm of 1995 in Ft. Worth, yes, it can be repaired if you didn't have grapefruit size hail.

 

[lindatat]

Speaking as a survivor of the Great Hail Storm of 1995 in Ft. Worth, yes, it can be repaired if you didn't have grapefruit size hail.

Or you can be like me, get the check from State Farm for $3000, and total your car a year later, never having actually repaired the hail damage (I could only see the dents if I turned my head sideways.)

 

[RiverOtter]

Somewhere earlier I mentioned our lovely Ohio weather. This morning started out to be beautiful summer day in October. Tonight? Really bad storms and a few tornados really close. We spent the dinner hour in the basement! I heard on the news there was golf ball size hail in several areas and baseball size hail reported also!! It didn't get that bad here at home. Mr. OL called home and said they went into tornando drill mode at work and could hear the storm pass over. He said it sounded like a really loud train and you could hear all the hail. An hour later he went out to check on his car in the parking lot. He said it looked like ice cubes were laying on the ground everywhere. He has many hail dents in his car and the driver's side mirror is broken. Is hail damage repairable?

Yikes! I hate nights like that. The hail damage can be repaired. But, depending on the on the age of the car the insurance co may total it.

 

[DD]

Yikes! I hate nights like that. The hail damage can be repaired. But, depending on the on the age of the car the insurance co may total it.

yep, that was my experience. they just totaled it--the damage was 7,000. My moon roof looked like Texas Stadium.

 

[Ocean Lover]

Yikes! I hate nights like that. The hail damage can be repaired. But, depending on the on the age of the car the insurance co may total it.

Hmm, I can't wait to see it when he gets home. It's storming again with skeery lightnening....time to shut the puter down again. UGH. Almost PR time anyway.

 

[dbuck]

Be Safe.

 

[Ocean Lover]

yep, that was my experience. they just totaled it--the damage was 7,000. My moon roof looked like Texas Stadium.

Double yikes! Don't think the car is worth $7,000. LOL It's a 2001 Saturn. It's a great little car so I'm bummed!

 

[30A Skunkape]

Do you know how your house roof made out? Better check it out:shock:

 

[RiverOtter]

Double yikes! Don't think the car is worth $7,000. LOL It's a 2001 Saturn. It's a great little car so I'm bummed!

You may be getting a new Saturn