Hail Storm Event - June 13, 2012 (Dallas, Prosper: homes, tile, living in)

[Johnhw2]

Originally Posted by Saintmarks

I am trusting that the trees will bounce back and leaf out again. I hate anyone losing property to something like this but tree damage tears my heart out. A car or house can be repaired or replaced, but a decades old tree can't. Thankful there were no serious injuries.

What is it about Texas and hail? I grew up in Georgia, we got frequent thunderstorms, but hail was a rare occurrence and when we did get it, always small, none of this stuff the size of a baseball.

Texas is at the point where cold air fronts move in from the NW and hit humid hot air from the gulf often and this combo can produce tornados and hair. Ice storms as well as so prevalent in N. Tx compared to any other place I have lived and they can be meaner than the ice storms with property, trees and people sliding all over the place and getting hurt.

[elan]

Saw a plethora of pickup trucks with magnetic signs reading Joe Blow's Roofing Service while driving to NorthPark for lunch. It doesn't take long for the vultures to swarm in.

[Souleiado]

Originally Posted by elan

Saw a plethora of pickup trucks with magnetic signs reading Joe Blow's Roofing Service while driving to NorthPark for lunch. It doesn't take long for the vultures to swarm in.

No kidding , they were at our doors early in the morning, by 5pm I had an assortment of cards.

[mSooner]

Apparently my husband and I are REALLY lucky. We're about to move to Coppell (after their hail storm) and got a new roof out of it on the house we purchased and we literally just moved out of the M Streets last week...we had no garage so our cars would have been trashed.

Whew.

I'm surprised Chihuly made it relatively intact!

[JenG1974]

The pictures of the houses on Swiss Avenue broke my heart! All of those slate roofs - so sad. I drove down Richmond at lunch from Abrams to Greenville - almost every single car had their windshields blown out. There was a lot of damage. It looks like it just got progressively worse and peaked in Junius Heights

[TXNGL]

Originally Posted by elan

Saw a plethora of pickup trucks with magnetic signs reading Joe Blow's Roofing Service while driving to NorthPark for lunch. It doesn't take long for the vultures to swarm in.

They've been ringing my bell all day long.

[rantanamo]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

It's probably cold comfort to those affected, but this was just a moderately bad hail storm, not a tsunami or a hurricane. It hardly qualifies as an event worthy of some of the emotional chest-thumping I saw on television this morning.

I'm pretty sure there's no chest thumping. Sounds more sheer curiosity and shock of how quickly it happened and how much damage was done by it. Its just something that's not seen often. I've even heard its about a once every 30 year type thing. I've seen like dime and even quarter sized hail all my life. I've driven in it. Heck, I've been on baseball fields when it hit. What happened yesterday was crazy. I was driving on I-30 listening to the radio talk about the Park Cities, when BAM, right on the windshield. My car was beaten pretty badly to the point that I'm absolutely shocked given how hail is just a part of life here. Then there was the drive down Gaston where every other car had its windows out and the street was completely covered with debris. Then there was the eerie fog that covered Tennyson and Lakewood Country Club. Again, I was truly shocked driving down Gaston, as my back window was slowly collapsing. I know a reasonable mind understands that 3-4 inch balls of ice falling from thousands of feet pack a wallop, but it was STILL shocking sitting in a car being pelted like that. I don't feel like I was going to die, but that was a crazy, and I think that's the sentiment you're seeing in the media here.

Also, from having actually been in the car when it hit, I can only imagine there would have been significant injury or maybe even deaths if this was a more pedestrian city.

[SVTRay]

I've actually seen worse believe it or not. The hail was softball size or larger. It hailed so much, there was ice on the side of the road the following day! Shortly after it let up, an F1 Tornado touched down a mile from the house. Thankfully it landed in a cotton field and only damaged a trailer and the people inside sustained minor injuries.

[highcotton]

Lakewood Country Club greens after the hail storm. Kinda hard to make a putt!

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by rantanamo

I'm pretty sure there's no chest thumping. Sounds more sheer curiosity and shock of how quickly it happened and how much damage was done by it. Its just something that's not seen often. I've even heard its about a once every 30 year type thing. I've seen like dime and even quarter sized hail all my life. I've driven in it. Heck, I've been on baseball fields when it hit. What happened yesterday was crazy. I was driving on I-30 listening to the radio talk about the Park Cities, when BAM, right on the windshield. My car was beaten pretty badly to the point that I'm absolutely shocked given how hail is just a part of life here. Then there was the drive down Gaston where every other car had its windows out and the street was completely covered with debris. Then there was the eerie fog that covered Tennyson and Lakewood Country Club. Again, I was truly shocked driving down Gaston, as my back window was slowly collapsing. I know a reasonable mind understands that 3-4 inch balls of ice falling from thousands of feet pack a wallop, but it was STILL shocking sitting in a car being pelted like that. I don't feel like I was going to die, but that was a crazy, and I think that's the sentiment you're seeing in the media here.

Also, from having actually been in the car when it hit, I can only imagine there would have been significant injury or maybe even deaths if this was a more pedestrian city.

Again, I just don't see why it's such a huge story. I've seen bigger hail, and there are far bigger problems facing us as a city, state, and country than this.

Then again I might be singing a different tune if my car's windows had been blown out. But I have no idea.