Crazy hail storm in Calgary - Page 12 - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

Jing · 07-12-2010, 10:02 PM

Slightly larger then a golf ball in the NW by the university.

photon · 07-12-2010, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

So whats next? How long will it take to get it fixed?

No idea, they said someone will call at some point, as long as it gets fixed someday. It's hardly visible.

I just wonder if they're going to get tired of us, just had the deer thing then this lol.

RW99 · 07-12-2010, 10:23 PM

Most if not all insurance companies need to take quality photos of hail damage. They need proper lighting to have it show up in the photos properly. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the major ones set up more temporary services to help process claims. But to call when thousands of others are calling and expect things done right now just wont happen. They don't have hundreds of people sitting around waiting for a hail storm

Best bet is to give it a couple of days to put in the claim. Less hold time and maybe they will have an action plan in place to help with the high influx of hail damage claims.

zamler · 07-12-2010, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by RW99

But to call when thousands of others are calling and expect things done right now just wont happen.

I happened to be home about 20 minutes after it hit my area. I wiped down my car a bit to inspect, and called right away. Otherwise I doubt I would have gotten through at all.

Hail damage on cars royally sucks, it's about the worst thing that can happen sans a major accident. In some ways it is worse, you can replace a corner or a panel or two, but when the damage is everywhere, ugh.

BlackArcher101 · 07-12-2010, 10:30 PM

Why god why do people use everything else BUT a golfball when putting something into a picture to show scale. Surely someone must have a golfball lying around at this time of the year!

zamler · 07-12-2010, 10:35 PM

Here ya go

photon · 07-12-2010, 10:47 PM

Perspective can be important.

Coach · 07-12-2010, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by zamler

I happened to be home about 20 minutes after it hit my area. I wiped down my car a bit to inspect, and called right away. Otherwise I doubt I would have gotten through at all.

Hail damage on cars royally sucks, it's about the worst thing that can happen sans a major accident. In some ways it is worse, you can replace a corner or a panel or two, but when the damage is everywhere, ugh.

yeah thats my problem.....my car is completely owned. I live right by the university and walking home from university station it looked like my whole nieghborhood was hit by effing frag grenades. peoples widows smashed....trees everywhere. My car looks like i just drove through downtown Baghdad with a sign that said "America Rules!".i would have to get the entire outerbody of my car fixed/replaced.

puckluck · 07-12-2010, 10:50 PM

You can expect insurance rates to go up after all these claims get settled.

Are any of you planning on taking the money and not fixing your cars? That's a option, but you will no longer be covered for future hail damage to your car.

malcolmk14 · 07-12-2010, 10:57 PM

I was parked at the park n ride at 17th and Sarcee, didn't even look like rain touched my car. The streaks on the hood and dust on the windshield looked to be in exactly the same place it was when I left it in the morning. Just got insanely lucky I think.

STeeLy · 07-12-2010, 11:00 PM

Um... I was around the Marda Loop, MRC (MRU) and West Hills area... my car got POUNDED by the hail...

There are no dents on my hood, but a definitely a few on the roof...

zamler · 07-12-2010, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by MattyC

yeah thats my problem.....my car is completely owned. I live right by the university and walking home from university station it looked like my whole nieghborhood was hit by effing frag grenades.

Sorry to hear it, your car was in probably the worst hit area. I live in Brentwood, a bit behind Brentwood mall/plaza. I looked at a few other cars on my street, some are much worse than mine. My dents are fairly small except for a couple. Maybe the newer cars have thinner sheet metal in places, not sure. But a Civic for example was completely brutalized, deep dents, car looks like the surface of the moon. A rusty old 70's American car in my back lane that is mostly abandoned is fine, no dents. How ironic.

BurningYears · 07-13-2010, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by MattyC

yeah thats my problem.....my car is completely owned. I live right by the university and walking home from university station it looked like my whole nieghborhood was hit by effing frag grenades. peoples widows smashed....trees everywhere. My car looks like i just drove through downtown Baghdad with a sign that said "America Rules!".i would have to get the entire outerbody of my car fixed/replaced.

ty situation but this made me laugh my ass off
definently makes me happy that my car was underground for all of this.

SebC · 07-13-2010, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by photon

Perspective can be important.

This is what 3D photography is for.

Raekwon · 07-13-2010, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by puckluck

You can expect insurance rates to go up after all these claims get settled.

Are any of you planning on taking the money and not fixing your cars? That's a option, but you will no longer be covered for future hail damage to your car.

Its funny how much you hate insurance companies and how little you know about them.

Roast Beef · 07-13-2010, 06:44 AM

I'm so glad my car was in an underground garage at the time.

Bigtime · 07-13-2010, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by KevanGuy

I think a big question in all of this will be where were the Weather Modification cloud seeders? Because I was out driving I didn't have access to their radar but BA told me on the phone that they weren't out. That is very unusual. In fact, in the past week or so I haven't seen them out on any cells - I was thinking the tracking they use for the planes on the radar must be out.

I was by the ramp the weather modification aircraft stage out of around 11:30am, there was only 1 of the aircraft on the ramp at that time. I would be very surprised if they didn't go up and seed that cloud.

Hevishot · 07-13-2010, 07:37 AM

Cp Discount and deductable savings are now in effect bring me your approved estimates or come on in and get one done.

Resolute 14 · 07-13-2010, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Bigtime

I was by the ramp the weather modification aircraft stage out of around 11:30am, there was only 1 of the aircraft on the ramp at that time. I would be very surprised if they didn't go up and seed that cloud.

According to the news last night, they had three planes seeding the storm over Calgary and two more to the north around Didsbury.

Awesome pics, Kevanguy!

And man am I glad we just got heavy rain but no hail where I work. As cool as the hail storm would be to witness, it probably would have written off my POS car.

gargamel · 07-13-2010, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Roast Beef

I'm so glad my car was in an underground garage at the time.

A lot of people have posted stuff like this, so I'm not picking on you, but what's the point of a post like this on a forum full of people whose cars were badly damaged? Do you go up to homeless people and tell them how happy you are that you just ate a delicious dinner?

Having said that, I am glad that we don't have hail storms like that over here in Connecticut.