Hail sucks

sorry to hear that, inky.

i know what it's like to live in fear of hail fucking up a nice ride.

 

I've never felt so lucky (property damage-wise) as I did when I escaped hail a few years ago in Springfield, Mo.

I relayed all of this on SJ at the time, but I was at the hotel and storms were coming. There was a big purple blotch on the radar (I believe I described it as the size of Grimace's genitalia) that indicated hail ... it was about to envelop the metro area. I saw my car sitting out there unprotected in the parking lot and decided to get the fuck out of Dodge to lay low under a bridge or something.

Some colleagues of mine drove up and I told them we needed to find shelter. As if on cue, the monsoon starts. We get a half-mile up the main drag and hail straight out of the Bible starts falling. We take shelter underneath a gas station overhang. Oh, and winds were in the 50-mile-per-hour territory and a tornado touched down the other direction from where we drove.

One of my buddies went out and picked a piece of hail up ... it was the size of fucking grapefruit. Never seen anything like it.

 

Sorry to hear about the damage. That sucks.

I can say, however, that it was a hailstorm that allowed me to buy my beloved Pontiac Sunfire for about $3,000 less than the list price. The car had a bunch of tiny little hail dings all over it, and since dependability and driveability are way more important to me than looks, it was like a gift from heaven, literally.

 

Update: Roof leak this morning, into our newly renovated kitchen. Wife is Not Happy.

Climbed up there and the shingles look like a really soft Par 3 green after a day where no golfers fix their divots. Still can't figure out where the leak is coming from.

Oh well, at least I didn't get drunk up there and fall off. ;D

I'm off to the insurance office. As JayFarrar says when he's about to do something not fun at all "Wheeee!"

 

other than that, how was the trip to branson?

 

The Chinese buffet was to die for.

 

Wheee, indeed.
Local TV people are on armegeddon storm watch.
Sick. Of. This.

Sorry to hear about the damage. I suspect that when I go home, my house won't be there or something.

 

I've seen softball-size hail before.

Fucked up an entire village.

 

Sometimes, you have to tear down a village to save it.

 

sing it, sing it ...