holy hail

jason71 · 10-12-2007, 12:21 AM

We had a wild hail storm today while at work in Blacktown (western Sydney), which caused a lot of damage to cars and houses.
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exrtnz · 10-12-2007, 01:13 AM

thats a wicked hail storm!

Force6 · 10-12-2007, 01:53 AM

My mates car got absolutely worked by the hail... big starfish crack in the windscreen, dents everywhere. Lucky it's a 4runner and just makes it look tough.

dave351cid · 10-12-2007, 01:59 AM

looks like the windscreen guys will be busy tomorrow.

normxb · 10-12-2007, 03:54 AM

Hey Jason
The 3rd pic , is that the corner of Balmoral & Newton rds , looks like my brothers old house 3rd along the street ?

Probably not , I left there 16 yrs ago and things would have changed heaps, but thought I'd ask .

Norm

sleekism · 10-12-2007, 08:14 AM

Was your car locked up???

Fev · 10-12-2007, 11:54 AM

luckily when it hit west pennant hills i had my car in the garage, i was fitting up my new dba's when it hit. soooo lucky, i saw quite a few cars with huge dents all over them, even the sides, it was crazy

family friend of mine is cheering, owns his own panel beating shop

BFYOOT · 10-12-2007, 12:11 PM

looks like something out of that "Day after tomorrow" movie...

bathurst77 · 10-12-2007, 01:21 PM

Holy Hailstones Batman!
Look at the hail "boulder" on the rear shelf of that magna!

HLC · 10-12-2007, 01:31 PM

you work at btown station mate?

i got caught in it as well, at btown/eastern creek on my way home to erskine park. nowhere to stop on the m4. i solidered on only copping golf ball sized hail.

some decent hail damage but nothing like my mates cars who live at blacktown. or roofs or anything like that.

HLC · 10-12-2007, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by normxb

Hey Jason
The 3rd pic , is that the corner of Balmoral & Newton rds , looks like my brothers old house 3rd along the street ?

Probably not , I left there 16 yrs ago and things would have changed heaps, but thought I'd ask .

Norm

im pretty sure that is the intersection you are talking about. many a nights spent walking along there trashed to the station to go into the city or somewhere

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King Nothing · 10-12-2007, 02:51 PM

Check these guys out!

I was out at eastern creek at a driver training day, on the skid pan when these things started falling. I managed to get undercover and somehow avoided any damage. Lots of cars didnt though, including a whole row of new subarus that looked like they were there for a display or something.

EF Hoon · 10-12-2007, 03:24 PM

yeah unfortunatly was at the beach came bak to my mates place to find my car ruined, looks like somones taken a shotgun to it, but so may cars look the same around the area

XR8putts · 10-12-2007, 05:16 PM

This dosn't happen too often around here, is it true that insurance companies won't cover any damage to motorvehicles even if you pay the deductable?

HLC · 10-12-2007, 05:23 PM

no, they will cover it.

i went down to my panel beater today for him to give me an assessment. the damage on my car is not that bad. but there is a fairly good chance that it will be a repairable write off. so yeah. it pays to be comprehensively insured.

Nostalgia · 10-12-2007, 06:53 PM

That looks like one hell of a storm you guys had. How long did it last ?

DA68ZA · 10-12-2007, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by bathurst77

Holy Hailstones Batman!
Look at the hail "boulder" on the rear shelf of that magna!

look at the front of the roof on the car next to it
:evil3:

jason71 · 10-12-2007, 09:15 PM

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The 3rd pic , is that the corner of Balmoral & Newton rds , looks like my brothers old house 3rd along the street ?

I've no idea of the street name's all I know it was only a couple of blocks from the train station.

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you work at btown station mate?

I'm a train driver at penrith

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Was your car locked up???

My car was at Penrith (only 20 K's away) and they didn't get one drop of rain!

Pinch · 10-12-2007, 10:05 PM

Comprehensive insurance you should be all good.

I got caught in the Ulladulla hailstorm in 2005. I was just south of Lake Tabourie on the open road and it hit like nothing I have even heard about before. Managed to stop on the side of the road but the wind and tree branches going everywhere were amazing. The sound was absolutely astounding. I thought we were gone for sure as trees were coming down so got my wife on the back seat, lay over her and then pulled some blankets and pillows over. Never been as scared since. No time for foolin around either believe me...

Long story short, $14500 damage to a 4 month old Futura. Was repaired by Lumley's, off the road for 3.5 weeks.

Got some radar echo's from the BOM afterwards. We were in a 1km super cell path that actually missed Ulladulla, but they still copped it bad. a few mins either way and we would have missed the worst...

Not a great weekend away.

We did get Sunday's storm up on the central coast. Only 5mm hail, but lost power for 3 hours.

Hope it works out ok for all you affected.

normxb · 11-12-2007, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by normxb

The 3rd pic , is that the corner of Balmoral & Newton rds , looks like my brothers old house 3rd along the street ? .

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Originally Posted by HLC

im pretty sure that is the intersection you are talking about. many a nights spent walking along there trashed to the station to go into the city or somewhere

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Originally Posted by jason71

I've no idea of the street name's all I know it was only a couple of blocks from the train station.

Yep guys , I'm sure thats it ,
Jason , it is the road down to the station .

When I lived/worked in Blacktown & Erskine Park we had bad hail storms (but not as bad as that) but since moving bush , the biggest hail stones we get out here are only the size of "marbles" , not "Baseballs" . I think I made a good move ..

Norm

HLC · 11-12-2007, 02:05 PM

norm, we havnt had hail out this way forever, and if we did it was only tiny marble stuff or smaller.

this was a freak storm and it just cut an angle straight through from Erskine Park to blacktown through minchinbury, rooty hill and eastern creek on the way. insane.

GORDZ · 11-12-2007, 03:42 PM

i wonder if that rock that raped the magna would bounce or puncture a tonneau cover... how unlucky would you feel being the bloke behind it that copped it off the tonneau, lol.

but jeeesus, thats gotta hurt.

**DJM83** · 11-12-2007, 03:56 PM

Thats absolutly insane

normxb · 13-12-2007, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by HLC

norm, we havnt had hail out this way forever, and if we did it was only tiny marble stuff or smaller.
this was a freak storm and it just cut an angle straight through from Erskine Park to blacktown through minchinbury, rooty hill and eastern creek on the way. insane.

HLC , we had 2 storms when we lived out there ( mid 80's) within a couple of months (not that bad) broke a few roof tyles but was damn scary just the same , about golf ball size hail . Seemed the storms came from the east , hit the mountains and came back for a second go .

Did that one come over the mountains , from the east & turn around , or just "appear" ?

We do get heavy rain & winds out here , but not the "Huge iceballs "