Nanner
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Jun 25, 2014 23:13:23 GMT
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Post by Nanner on Aug 8, 2014 1:03:41 GMT
Got home from work today, just after a bad hail storm had rolled through my town. Came home to see big holes all over the siding on our house, painted surfaces (garage door, etc.) stripped of paint. All of our screens ripped out, screen door all bashed up. No windows were broken in our house, but the metal part around one of our windows is all dented and mis-aligned. Every single car that was parked outside along our street has broken tail lights, huge dents and some have their windows broken out. And that's just our street. I've heard it was even worse on the other side of our town.
What a pain. Now we have to deal with all of this shit.
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Post by lovetodigi on Aug 8, 2014 1:36:57 GMT
I am so sorry. Glad that you weren't hurt, the other things will be a head ache, but can be fixed. Insurance should cover the repairs. I know that you must be sick over what you saw when you got home. (((HUG)))
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Post by sbartist on Aug 8, 2014 1:42:26 GMT
Mother nature can be so destructive, and there is not a lot you can do when it is happening except keep your family safe. The damage that was caused just totally bites. Sorry you have to now get stuff repaired.
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Post by mztfied on Aug 8, 2014 1:45:37 GMT
Oh not fun. Hope your insurance helps out with the repairs.
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Post by denda on Aug 8, 2014 2:18:56 GMT
We had a thunderstorm this evening. We had a good rain here at our house. My husband went to check his crops and he just called me. We had some of our crops hailed out! This is the second hail storm for us this season It is not going to be a good year
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Aug 8, 2014 2:24:08 GMT
Oh my gosh, that's awful. I hope the insurance covers it.
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Post by denda on Aug 8, 2014 2:35:42 GMT
Nanner- Hope your insurance company is easy to work with. Good luck to you.
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Nanner
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Post by Nanner on Aug 8, 2014 2:44:56 GMT
Insurance will cover it. We are with a new insurance company though, so I don't know how they are to deal with - I changed jobs last summer, and my insurance had been through a group plan with my old company, so I had to change. I am now with the company that my current employer has a group plan through.
We are expecting more of this through the night too.
Fortunately everyone is ok. I don't know of anybody being hurt so far. And this is nothing compared to the hurricanes, tornadoes and things you guys get down there. But damn, I'm frustrated with it.
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Post by GamGam on Aug 8, 2014 2:51:07 GMT
O am so sorry. Sounds like a severe storm. You will need to have your roof checked. It will probably need replacing. We had hail damage to our new car 2 weeks ago, so I know how you must feel. Hugs.
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Post by canadianscrappergirl on Aug 8, 2014 2:57:22 GMT
Aww Nancy I feel for you been watching the weather channel and outside closely I am in Alberta too and it is heading our way ugh!!! Really nasty out now and the temp dropped about 10 degrees in about 30 mins. We went thru all that 5 years ago we had to replace all our siding and our car was wrote off. It looked like someone took a shotgun to the our house and the yard was littered with so much hail it looked like snow.
I am sure your insurance company will be good to you just such a pain to deal with all that kinda stuff though ugh!
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Post by JBeans on Aug 8, 2014 3:20:48 GMT
Got home from work today, just after a bad hail storm had rolled through my town. Came home to see big holes all over the siding on our house, painted surfaces (garage door, etc.) stripped of paint. All of our screens ripped out, screen door all bashed up. No windows were broken in our house, but the metal part around one of our windows is all dented and mis-aligned. Every single car that was parked outside along our street has broken tail lights, huge dents and some have their windows broken out. And that's just our street. I've heard it was even worse on the other side of our town. What a pain. Now we have to deal with all of this shit. Crappy! It didn't even touch us here, but what hits you, will likely hit the area where I work. Tomorrow should be busy. I haven't dealt with insurance with hail damage, but I have with fire damage. It is a pain. Expect contractors to be busy so repairs may take a bit.
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Nanner
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Post by Nanner on Aug 8, 2014 4:04:43 GMT
Yes, I imagine the contractors will be pretty busy, because so much of Airdrie has damage. We took a drive around, and there is so much damage to houses in our little city.
Yes, we will have them check our roof too. I've had a look around upstairs and don't see anything coming through right now, but I don't know how long it takes rain takes to work its way through the ceiling when the roof is damaged. If the roof is damaged, that will cost us because the roof is 21 years old, and they've already told me before that at that age, they only cover a small amount. So that's going to be a big hit for us that we didn't really expect.
Canadianscrappergirl - and JBeans, I hope it doesn't hit either of you.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 8, 2014 4:15:11 GMT
That is horrible. Hope the replacement goes as quickly as possible. We get terrible hailstorms here. It is just about the only bad weather we really get yearly.
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theshyone
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Post by theshyone on Aug 8, 2014 4:19:40 GMT
I didn't realize you were that near me Nancy. It was brutal.
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Post by JBeans on Aug 8, 2014 5:06:51 GMT
We had a thunderstorm this evening. We had a good rain here at our house. My husband went to check his crops and he just called me. We had some of our crops hailed out! This is the second hail storm for us this season It is not going to be a good year You guys insure, don't you? Or do you get a lot of hail your way? That's pretty late in the crop year too. That will cause some damage! That sucks.
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Post by JBeans on Aug 8, 2014 5:09:41 GMT
Canadianscrappergirl - and JBeans, I hope it doesn't hit either of you. It didn't hit us but radar looks like it nailed Strathmore and area. It seems what you guys get, Strathmore gets it too.
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valincal
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Post by valincal on Aug 8, 2014 5:35:49 GMT
Got home from work today, just after a bad hail storm had rolled through my town. Came home to see big holes all over the siding on our house, painted surfaces (garage door, etc.) stripped of paint. All of our screens ripped out, screen door all bashed up. No windows were broken in our house, but the metal part around one of our windows is all dented and mis-aligned. Every single car that was parked outside along our street has broken tail lights, huge dents and some have their windows broken out. And that's just our street. I've heard it was even worse on the other side of our town. What a pain. Now we have to deal with all of this shit. So sorry! Alberta hail can be such a bitch! My cousin in Airdrie just posted some pics to Facebook. Her trees and plants are shredded and there are holes in the siding of her house too. Remember when they used to seed the rain clouds to lessen hail damage? Whatever happened to that?
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theshyone
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Post by theshyone on Aug 8, 2014 6:12:18 GMT
Insurance companies no longer wanted to pay for the seeding. They decided to pass the cost along to consumers. (At least that's what I've been told)
Pictures I saw of airdrie are worse than here, but those west of us are terrible. Lots of flooding here in the typical places.
Crops will get checked tomorrow.
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Post by BarbaraUK on Aug 8, 2014 11:17:26 GMT
Got home from work today, just after a bad hail storm had rolled through my town. Came home to see big holes all over the siding on our house, painted surfaces (garage door, etc.) stripped of paint. All of our screens ripped out, screen door all bashed up. No windows were broken in our house, but the metal part around one of our windows is all dented and mis-aligned. Every single car that was parked outside along our street has broken tail lights, huge dents and some have their windows broken out. And that's just our street. I've heard it was even worse on the other side of our town. What a pain. Now we have to deal with all of this shit. Oh my goodness, that was one heck of a hail storm and a heck of a lot of damage! We get hail storms too but even at their worst, they are mild compared with that!! Do hope it won't take long for you to get the damage sorted out and the process won't be too aggravating.
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Nanner
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Post by Nanner on Aug 8, 2014 12:15:57 GMT
Where are you at, ShyOne? I hope your crop damage wasn't too bad. Denda, so sorry you got hit with one too.
I do remember when they used to seed the clouds. Big hail storms were pretty rare. I do wish they'd go back to doing that again.
I wonder how long it'll take to get our house fixed. When I called the insurance company last night, they said an adjustor would call me today. I expect I won't hear from an adjustor for several days because there will be so many claims filed.
We were supposed to go to SoCal next month for a couple of weeks, but we are cancelling that. I'm pretty sure the roof is damaged and I don't want to spend the money on a vacation when our roof will cost us out of pocket.
But it could be worse.
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Post by JBeans on Aug 8, 2014 12:38:30 GMT
Insurance companies no longer wanted to pay for the seeding. They decided to pass the cost along to consumers. (At least that's what I've been told) Pictures I saw of airdrie are worse than here, but those west of us are terrible. Lots of flooding here in the typical places. Crops will get checked tomorrow. I was under the impression they still did that and that is why east of Calgary gets nailed with hail. Or at least became progressively worse with hail over the years. Just based on talk and statistics I've seen shown. Nanner, I'm bummed for you that you now have to cancel your trip! Boo!
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Nanner
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Post by Nanner on Aug 8, 2014 23:24:03 GMT
Thanks Janine.
On the news today, they were saying that they did do several seeding flights, but I guess it was either too late, or it just didn't work.
The adjustor called me today. It looks like the roof will cost us less than I expected, and that the minimum that our insurance company will cover is more than I had thought. So that was good news. We won't know anything though for at least 3 - 4 weeks, and our vacation was to start in 4 weeks.
Another adjustor will be calling me regarding the van. BIL, who was an adjustor until he retired, expects that the van will be a write off, after seeing the pictures.
My awesome son just called and told me he's coming over tomorrow to help us clean up the yard. That will be a huge help.
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