I did!!

All good, as long as that wasn't one of the coverage options you thought you could do without.

THe woman next door did , but then again she's had it for years

My car has many new speed dents.

My neighbours entire Pergola roof was broken to bits by the hail



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www.pergolaimprovements.com.au

Feel free to contact me if you live in Perth's northern suburbs and require a quote.

I got lucky.
I stuck the cars out in the driveway for a free wash - they don't get washed too often!
A friend texted from about 5kms away and said she was getting bombarded by golf ball sized hail so I put them back in garage nicely cleaned and no more than 10 minutes later we had the lot. Plenty of hail and raging torrents running down our road into the sump at the bottom of the hill.
Every kid in the street had their boogey boards out and had a ball in the knee deep water (until the thunder and lightening was directly overhead - then they SH_T themselves. The dogs only just stopped shivering). The storm water sump was half filled in about 15 minutes.

Good luck to those that got damage.....

Elroy Jetson said...

I install gutters only on Pergolas.

With all the different styles of gutters, house roof plumbing is a job in itself. I refer all house gutter jobs to John's roofing.

I can PM you his number if you're interested.

I wouldn't worry just yet if you have gutters that normally drain fine but leaked/overflowed during the storm late this afternoon. I would guess that 90% of Perth residents in the path of the storm would have had overflowing gutters during today's intense downpour.

Just emailed your contact site to my daughter in Joondalup. their patio looks a little like the one you put up
Didn't get any hail in Carramar but the gutters back washed into the eaves and ran a river out through garage
Fortunately I was watching on rain radar at work, called wife who was out in direct line of impact zone, and recommended she head home and put my favourite toy back in garage (Cruiser) First up she said "its sunny out side, until she looked North then thought, I have seen this before in Sydney many moons back and headed home safe garage

I wasn't expecting the storm at all but when it happened I managed to take some footage of the backyard. The hail was ping ponging around so I placed the camera on the table and went (quickly) back inside.

Yeah, I reckon my girlfriend's car will be a write-off. 7 out of 9 panels are peppered with dents, windscreen is severely cracked and 1 window is too. The insurance policy should cover it - it's comprehensive and doesn't exclude hail, so hopefully they don't try and weasel out of it.

We are in Nedlands - The whole suburb got hammered. UWA copped some severe damage. Car looks like it has been done over with a ball hammer!

same there was golf bals going through the patio pannels!!!

Flooded study room, water everywhere in the kitchen, possibly stuffed gtr amp.
We got off extremely lightly compared to most in the surrounding burbs.

I detoured thru Flozzer on the way home and have never seen anything approaching the scene there.

Had two roofy dudes come to quote on new gutters today. Their ute had around 10 shatters on the windscreen and 70+ big @rsed dents all over the bonnet and roof. Said they saw a school kids running past with golf balls richocheting off him all over the place. Lucky he had a helmet on.

Kn craaaazy weather - it that nong Brashone's fault I'm sure!

Ain't no global warming, been there done that 15 years ago.

I lived in Armidale NSW in 96. On grandfinal day we were in the pub watching the game. My best mate going for the Sea Eagles I go for the Dragons. Around half time it sounds like a bunch of carpenters are beating on the roof with hammers. Oh well.

We keep drinking and watching the game and then finish up after Manly wins. Start walking home.......

Bloody hell. Not exactly world war 3 but there was a huge amount of destruction. My VS Commodore had the crap beaten out of it. Back window smashed, every panel beaten and all the plastic bits smashed.

The roofers and plumbers were busy in Armidale for the next year or so.

So the big tip out of this is for roofers and plumbers in WA to be working hard and cashing in after the storm.


Here are a couple of pages that covers the Armidale storm and this was before the Interweb became totally dominant.

www.australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/1996/docs/9609-04.htm
http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emadisasters.nsf/c85916e930b93d50ca256d050020cb1f/2e04349837e08a1eca256d3300057c1d?OpenDocument

^^^^ Spencer Tunic's latest work??

I knew some crazies would be out in it. Check this out:




Poods

did anybody get any solar panel damage
we get hit by one of these ever couple of years , and youve all got me stressing now

landyacht said...

did anybody get any solar panel damage
we get hit by one of these ever couple of years , and youve all got me stressing now

There were two solar hot water systems smashed to pieces just around the corner, the rain had stopped but there was water 'persisting' out of one of them, must have broke the copper? core or whatever as well as the glass.
I have lived in Perth for...... ummmm..... a long time though and I have never seen hailstones anywhere near the size of the ones that hit my place the other day, the noise was deafening.