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Old 06-03-2010, 04:48 PM   #1
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Antone get any damage from the flooding and hailstorm? Just heard from a couple of people with dinted cars, holes in their roofs and pergola's.

He has a hailstone in his freezer the size of a baseball :

Some areas copped it. Check out the pics-

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/pho...-1225837674571

http://www.theage.com.au/photogaller...0306-pph5.html

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Old 06-03-2010, 04:53 PM   #2
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A friend of my wife had her car window smashed by hailstones in Rowville, must be quite heavy in parts.

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I just uploaded a vid on FB, it was mental, I have never seen hail like it. You hear of it in QLD and NSW but not VIC.

It hit while we were in Lygon St having lunch, a nice black M3 sedan copped it right in front of us; id be having a heart attack if it was mine.
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I just uploaded a vid on FB, it was mental, I have never seen hail like it. You hear of it in QLD and NSW but not VIC.

It hit while we were in Lygon St having lunch, a nice black M3 sedan copped it right in front of us; id be having a heart attack if it was mine.
Have you got a link to the vid, or youtube?
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Old 06-03-2010, 05:06 PM   #5
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Lets just say my XR8 ain't to straight anymore!!!! at least my old XT was in the garage.

...my company car is also looking pretty worse for ware.
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Old 06-03-2010, 05:11 PM   #6
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I just followed a Toyota Soarer up my street with no rear window... poor bloke. Biggest hail I have ever seen.
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Have you got a link to the vid, or youtube?
I have a pic, but having issues uploading the vid, wont be long. Sounds like the CBD didn't get the worst of it.

It was setting alarms etc off but no dints that I saw, although we went inside pretty quickly.

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I went out the back and secured all the kids toys ect as they were saying it was going to hit Geelong but it missed us thank goodnes

hope everyone here had thier cars safe ect

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The beemer guy would of been nervous. So would Mauz, his resteraunte' is across the road. Hopefully his F6 didn't get a hammering!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K521GEQn4-Q
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Ok here is a vid I took, only with a PAS digi cam, it had slowed down at this point.

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There is more coming too, according to the BOM site, heading south from Broadford now
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Old 06-03-2010, 05:49 PM   #13
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yeah the hail hurts... i was up on the roof taking the restrictions out of my down pipes and the hail was blocking the pipes up... go figure. gotta say i haven't seen it rain that heavy in a long time
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what a massive storm this was , it went so fast and hit very hard, my bedroom window got damaged, water came into hours house, one of our flood lights at the front of the hourse got smahed, here is some pics i got







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Old 06-03-2010, 06:16 PM   #15
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Both my cars were outside in Olinda - no damage despite large hailstones...a mate in Sherbrooke had his cars ruined...drove past Upper FTG train station, at least 4 cars there with broken windshields and hail damage on roof/bonnet.
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Old 06-03-2010, 06:35 PM   #16
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Every single car in our area that was outside is &*(^%#.

Stacks of houses with broken windows , even smashed plastic downpipes.
We have some minor pergola damage.

Neighbours have fist sized holes in their pergola roof and their aluminium wirly birds on their roofs are no longer wirling..they have been dinted and have jammed from spinning.

Neighbours had a larger than fist sized piece of ICE smash through theit rear windscreen , bounced of the back seat and landed on the dash !!!!

WTF !!!!!!! is going on with our weather. My brother lives in Lysterfield and driving through there is like driving through a war zone. Trees have been wipper snippered by the massive hail and the sun shades on the traffic lights have all been smashed to pieces.

Many people are away on holiday and don't even know that their windows have been smashed and their houses are filling with water !!!!!!!

This is the craziest thing I've ever seen.
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Old 06-03-2010, 06:46 PM   #17
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A friend of my wife had her car window smashed by hailstones in Rowville, must be quite heavy in parts.
My brother and his girlfriend live in Rowville. Her car (Ford Festiva) is pretty stuffed (brother's VY is fine...only a couple of tiny dents), while a couple of windows on the house have been annihilated.

They called the agent to get the windows repaired ASAP, and they got the common, 'I'll call the owner'.
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Old 06-03-2010, 06:50 PM   #18
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I saw it hit Flemington on the "box" while I was at the gym so I made sure my car was tucked away in the garage for when it finally hit down my way.

In the end we never got the hail or high winds anyway. All that would have happened is my car would have got a much needed (heavy) shower.

Probably lucky by the sounds of things because the direction the rain was coming the hail would have probably taken out at least one of the 2 sliding glass doors at my place. My living room would have been flooded.
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Old 06-03-2010, 06:54 PM   #19
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We were stuck in the middle of it in rowville.
There was a party in the court here and their is alot of damage.

The two best are a 2000 is subaru no longer has a rear window, half a dozen holes in it. And a BA has a cracked windscreen in about half a dozzen places.

Big bad news though was my ute was outside. I reckon it is now a write off.
Damage to it is:
Roof
Front pasenger quarter
Pasenger door
Pasenger cabin
Pasenger side tub
Windscreen (chipped)
Drivers mirror.

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My car is buggered. Bonnet, roof, boot, and some of the left hand side looks like Kirsty Alleys thighs... as for the windscreen.. cactus.
I am close to tears.
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Old 06-03-2010, 07:25 PM   #21
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Some pics:

Backyard, not long into the storm.


Patio roof, one of many, some holes bigger


Ute Roof


Ute Quarter


The BA's windscreen i was talking about

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You wouldn't want to get hit by one. One of the guys from Burwood Strapp Ford apparently got hit by one and it left a huge bruise on his bald head, said it was like getting hit numerous times with a paintball!
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Bloody hell..... I feel for all you guys n gals out there.

I live in Koo Wee Rup these days and barely even got heavy rain....

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Good news is that most ( if not all ) comprehensive car policies will cover the damage. If u have only 3rd party cover..........you're stuffed.

Methinks there will be hundreds of cars getting written off. Many in our street that were left outside look irrepairable.

Hope most people have agreed value cover and not market value coverage.

I can only imagine what the car yards look like in our area.........HAIL SALE coming next week for sure !
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Ferntree Gully got hit pretty hard by the sounds of things. Car parked across from the office at work has a cracked front and rear screen and looks as if a hammer attacked the bodywork.

We didnt get any hail in Croydon.
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Ferntree Gully got hit pretty hard by the sounds of things. Car parked across from the office at work has a cracked front and rear screen and looks as if a hammer attacked the bodywork.

We didnt get any hail in Croydon.
Lucky you , we felt like we were being bombed. I have never heard or seen anything like it in my life. A couple of houses had their sky lights smashed and some have a couple of smashed roof tiles as well as numerous smashed windows. Looks like Ferntreegully , Lysterfield and Rowville have felt the wrath of GOD this afternoon.
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We copped it really hard at Wheelers Hill, although, it didn’t damage our AU that was parked in the open.

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Had to happen on the day we took the kids to the zoo. Had to walk through water 3 or 4 inches deep, shoes and socks totally soaked. Crazy stuff. Ruined the day as we'd only seen probably a quarter of the animals and we were about 5 minutes away from seeing the baby elephant the kids wanted to see. Rain freaked it out apparently, first time the thing had seen rain.

Wagon seems to have escaped any hail damage luckily. Took an hour and a half to get from the zoo to footscray due to flooded roads.
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Up here in Sunbury we got the heavy rain but barely any hail at all.
Feel for the people whos cars are damaged.
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Ferntree Gully got hit pretty hard by the sounds of things.
Yeah, my old man said they got hammered by hail as big as cricket balls.
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