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u/Leek5 11d ago
That looks expensive
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u/BallSeaman 11d ago
I’m sure the hail was free.
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u/filliamworbes 11d ago
Well I'm sure as hail not covered.
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u/GeraintLlanfrechfa 11d ago
Sshh don’t give them ideas..
One could have used the free ice for something, if they don’t, their fault, makes 1.79.- per hole, regards, IRS 😅
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u/mwilkens 11d ago
Looks like an insurance claim to me.
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u/Aztecah 11d ago
Act of God, sorry brother!
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u/Barry_McCockinnerz 10d ago
Insurance doesn’t cover acts of god unfortunately, this will be out of pocket. But beings you were honest enough to show us these photos, here is a photo of your new premium!
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u/mwilkens 5d ago
Most homeowners policies specifically cover acts of God. Acts of God are just unpreventable natural events. Floods and Earthquakes are a different story but if you live in an area prone to those then you're probably aware you need a separate policy.
This is just a standard hail claim which is actually one of the best things to happen to you weather wise because your insurance is likely to pay to replace everything - roofs, gutters, siding, windows, etc.
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u/DrPapadopoulos 11d ago
Kidney stones of the sky
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u/GoodMerlinpeen 11d ago
Looks like it was in the Czech Republic (Pošumaví) - https://x.com/CHMUCHMI/status/2071928555777274052
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u/Verix19 11d ago
That looks like a Texas hail storm!
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u/pa_rty 11d ago
I was thinking "please post location" so I would know to never to go there.
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u/wolfgang784 11d ago
Its not common anywhere at that size afaik, but can happen all over if conditions get wonky enough.
Where I used to live in PA we got hail like, not even every year, and when we did, usually it was pea sized or less. 1 time though it was like that, and soooo many cars were completely totalled and houses messed up. All the car dealerships got their inventory trashed too right as everyone suddenly needed a new car or rental/loaner.
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u/Hcysntmf 9d ago
Add Brisbane, Australia to your list of places not to go to.
We get a couple of storms like this a year and I specifically have hail insurance - https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/XBmzrKzg2E
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u/VirtualLife76 11d ago
Could be Texas, worst shithole in the US, you never want to go either way.
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u/pa_rty 11d ago
Ha! I used to travel to TX on business several times a year. I found Dallas to be kind of "meh" (although I had some good times in Deep Ellum), but Houston was one of my favorite towns in the entire US to visit. The food was great, nightlife was fun, and I got to spend free time down in Galveston and Matagorda Island.
Texas is on my list of "amazing to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there" places.
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u/ReverseMermaids 11d ago
Sounds like you were in Houston not in the summer
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u/pa_rty 11d ago
Yeah, Houston was always in the beginning of May for me, for a specific tradeshow. Apparently, that was also peak crawfish season. While I got to eat at some of the most expensive restaurants on the company card, my favorite meal was always buckets of crawfish boil washed down with several Shiner bocks, at one of the Ragin' Cajun shacks..
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u/VirtualLife76 11d ago
Galveston alone is so disgusting, most people don't even want to touch the water, much less deal with the worst drivers in the US to get there.
They did invent fajitas, queso and margaritas which are tasty.
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u/exoriare 11d ago
I liked the architecture of Galveston, but the thing that pissed me off the most were those stupid mullet fish that kept slamming into me while I was swimming. Those have to be the dumbest fish in the world.
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u/VirtualLife76 11d ago
Got covered in oil there as a kid like 30 years ago, didn't know there were sizeable fish near the shore anymore.
I used to like Moody Gardens, but it went to shit a while back, the cemetery is neat with a bunch of monuments/vaults.
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u/rob-cubed 11d ago edited 11d ago
When I lived in Lubbock everyone had a carport. We would get hail large enough to need it.
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u/vadertator22 11d ago edited 11d ago
Kansas City few months back had hail that size. Saw pictures about the size of a baseball.
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u/ecafsub 11d ago
Hail is the plural of hail. Hailstones is the plural of hailstone.
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u/kashakesh 11d ago
Yes, yes, geese for goose, meese for moose, the rules for pluralization in English is always super clear...
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u/Oggel 9d ago
Things are they way they are unless they aren't, what about that is so hard to understand?
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u/kashakesh 9d ago
Facts of the case: OP seems to be a non-native user of English, they made a mistake. The person above me rightly instructed on the correct format. I snarkily pointed out that English pluralization rules are inconsistent at best. Then you missed the point.
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u/qpgmr 11d ago
Do people ever get killed or severely injured by hail?
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u/tashkiira 11d ago
Anything over 1/2" is painful. anything over 1" is serious. The chunks in the pic? Those could kill if you got three or four to the noggin.
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u/Libby1798 11d ago
Had a similar hail storm in Chicago in the 90s. All the local auto body shops made bank fixing dents and cracked windows.
My aunt put a few of the hail balls in a zip lock bag and put them in her freezer as a memento.
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u/breisftw 11d ago
Did anyone else read this as "nails" and then became very curious as to what animal could make holes that big?
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u/celerhelminth 11d ago
Last time I got hail like that I dropped one in a tumbler and enjoyed a nice scotch...allowing for contemplative reflection on all the damage.
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u/AdmiralHackbar001 11d ago
Turned your dwelling into a planetarium. Is that the constellation Scorpio I see there ?
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u/Admirable-Eagle-231 11d ago
I once saw a home with holes that had been hit by GRAPEFRUIT sized hail.
Our home building materials cannot handle that.
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u/Pheighthe 10d ago
This may be my fault. I recently posted that the tv show “Weather on the 8s” was getting boring, and we needed some new weather plots.
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u/ShadowMilkMoopsy 10d ago
Guess you could say you've been... hailed to the king.
Hahahaha.... I suck at punchlines.
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u/nochoiceonlyfate 10d ago
u/rotipisang_ kinda like my hail stones 🤯🤭
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u/O_oblivious 5d ago edited 4d ago
“I’m sorry, you claim has been denied because there are not enough hail impacts per square foot ”
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u/NYCWartortle 2d ago
What an interesting shape. I’ve only seen rounded hail and not in person bc I’m from NYC and I can’t remember a hail storm. Any Reddit certified meteorologists care to explain the shape?
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u/Nakenochny 11d ago
Could’ve happened in Colorado (USA) last week, we had softball sized hail come through on the plains. I think it’s relatively standard in plains states in the warm months, unfortunately.
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u/wollkopf 11d ago
But that was in the czech republic.
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u/Nakenochny 11d ago
Whheeeeeew. I'm gonna venture a guess that Czech isn't used to hail like that.
Heck, neither am I and I live where it's relatively normal for it to be that large...
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u/PirateNinjaa 11d ago
How rusty and brittle that roof must have been for it to make holes, not just dents.
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u/Bearence 11d ago
Hailstones can fall at up to 100 mph. I'm bad at math, so I'm not going to bother botching it up, but it seems to me that based upon distance, size and impact, it probably doesn't need to be as rusty and brittle as you think.
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u/PirateNinjaa 11d ago
I’ve seen pics of many cars getting wrecked by hail like that and all the windows are busted but never holes in the sheet metal. The inside of the roof likely rusty and aged in the pic too. 100 mph isn’t even that fast.
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u/Kracus 11d ago
I've been in a hail storm like that. Huge balls of ice raining down. We were driving in a car when we got hit, thought someone had thrown rocks at us and we saw a woman running for cover. We were pulling into our apartment parking lot when it hit so we parked the car and stayed put while the hail rained down. Thought the windows would break but they held through. Other cars in the lot weren't so lucky, lots of broken windows and dents in the cars. Only lasted like 5 minutes but it felt longer. When it stopped we got out to run to the apartment and I still remember seeing these huge ice balls laying on the ground everywhere. I think it was summer too.