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Hail
nutfinn
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Yesterday evening
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That'll leave a mark!
4 or 5 of those a glass & some whiskey you are good to go.
I passed a kidney stone once that felt to be about that size.
We had a hail storm here in Central Texas a week or so ago..........last Wed. I was doing an air handler replacement at a house in Sun CIty (retirement community north of Austin) and the owner's wife got caught out in it. The car is probably going to be totalled. It had 6-8 holes punched straight through the back window and dings all over.
...Hate that stuff...can ruin a roof and worse...Here in Texas, most Ins. Co's accept ten hail marks in a 100sq/ft area of roof.
...The big T Storms can have baseball size hail and bigger...I used to be an Ins. adjuster and I've seen cars totaled with the roofs beat down to almost door level by almost softball sized hail, bad stuff, scary....animals can killed...a number of people are injured each yr.
MY son and family got caught in hail while on vacation in Colorado. The damage to their Durango was so bad the body shop had to cut off the old roof and replace it with a new one. Many years ago (early 1970s) my house in Iowa was caught in a spring hail storm that stripped every leaf off of trees, wiped out the garden, punctured two garden hoses, broke all the windows on one side of the house, destroyed the roof, and killed 39 birds and a cottontail rabbit in the yard. Interestinlgy, I had a 1955 Second Series Chevy half-ton project pickup sitting outside and it only had a handful of almost unnoticeable dings on the roof. Tough old truck.
About 20 years ago we needed a new roof and I wanted metal, figuring that I would never have to worry about it again. Talked to a couple of roofers and they both were extremely enthusiastic about metal shingles. Durability without the stark look of standing seam. Warranty on the metal shingles was a lot longer than I expect to live so I had them installed. Looked great and I liked the sound of rain on the roof. Fast forward 10 years and a hailstorm not only dented the roof but every seam they hit now leaked. Warranties don't cover acts of god.😣
Insurance covered it but I replaced the roof with the heaviest duty, longest warranty asphalt, that I could find. Still miss the sound of the rain. Bob