What the Hail Happened?

I have never seen hail like this in September. Anybody else get damage from large hail out of this storm? Just finished cleaning up branches and filing a hail claim on the car, truck and house. Hit real hard here ping pong to golf ball size. Pretty sure the car is a total loss, roof, hood, doors, window posts and windows. I drove the car through hell (hail) to get home only to find I was too late to save the truck. Must be a big event, body shop set estimate up for November due to volume. The photo is about 2 hours after it happened still pretty good sized.

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Holy crap man, sorry to hear. Pics of the truck?

We just got grazed in this part of HR. I was thinking, "This is great. Just got the roof replaced on Friday due to hail damage and it hasn't even been inspected yet."

There was a swath up through HR, up into Greenwood Village and over into Aurora.

Saw the video of Arapahoe Hyundai. They have a lot of cars that were pretty much destroyed....busted out windows, sunroofs, and a boatload of sheet metal damage.

I will get picks tomorrow when I get the truck out of the garage in daylight. It is pretty much hood and roof got it in before the sides got slammed and it has a bed liner that covers the top of the box sides. The car is a work car with more than a few miles, so not a huge loss. Just a $1k deductible each vehicle is going to suck. Just had new roof and house painted this year.

Sheesh, we just got rain here. That's some big ice balls.

We got enough to do damage, not as large, but damage none the less. That was at Holly and County Line. Got the hood and passenger side that was facing the storm coming in from the west. Been raining ever since so can't get a clear idea of the damage but i can see them in there.

I liveb in the area hit, but the cars were in the garage. Need to check the roof tomorrow though.

I got nailed. Blew the roof vent and sky light out of my camper. Broke the siding and gutters on my house and hammered the roof.
lucky all my vehicles where inside. Smashed my boys toys that where in the yard :-(

At my friends house in the middle of Highlands Ranch.... we lucked out here, we're in the far South West portion of HR and we just got some pea sized hail.

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Been there done that! Sorry man!

Oh, wow! I'm so sorry. :( We had some trees that lost a good amount of bark and a LOT of leaves- but the worst actual damage we had was the loss of a window screen. Our hail was about fifty-cent-piece size, and then is shrunk down to pea size.

Global Warming, err Global Cooling, err Climate Change...........

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Global Warming, err Global Cooling, err Climate Change...........

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As long as we can all agree it was somehow our fault. :)

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At my friends house in the middle of Highlands Ranch.... we lucked out here, we're in the far South West portion of HR and we just got some pea sized hail.

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I hear those Presidential shingles can get blasted pretty good in unsupported areas. Haven't seen it first hand yet though.

Got some decent rain at my house. The yard can always use it. Seems like you guys in Aurora always get the brunt of the hail. Must have something to do with being so close to the airport.

Wife says we lost three windows, all the screens are torn up, the basement flooded, and the siding on the west side of the house is damaged. We live in HR as well. I won't be home for another week to see the damage.

My 4runner has hail damage, dammit!! Have to check the roof of the house when there is more sun out today.

Weather has been crazy this year. Come on winter! !

My wife and I got caught in that hail storm on I25 on the way home to the Springs. It was hailing so hard I to stop because I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me! Hundreds of dents all over the car and a broken drivers side mirror. Now I have to call the insurance co and argue with them. I'm still fighting them over my Suburban that was stolen 6 months ago.

I was close to driving up the street and reserving a spot in a car wash bay (in years when Lakeside mall existed we would drive over to their underground receiving bays before hail hit).....I really need to clean out another spot in the garage. Thankfully no hail here.

Dr_Fwd and I were caught in the gumball size hail storm yesterday. He freaked out like a lil girl, cause I was 'intrumental' driving w/ my GPS. I figured, everyone else pulled over, I just had to watch my gps where to turn and so on. Visibility was less 5 feet. That was fun... watching him shrieking that is.

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Dr_Fwd and I were caught in the gumball size hail storm yesterday. He freaked out like a lil girl, cause I was 'intrumental' driving w/ my GPS. I figured, everyone else pulled over, I just had to watch my gps where to turn and so on. Visibility was less 5 feet. That was fun... watching him shrieking that is.

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My plane was landing in it yesterday. As we were taxiing, some smaller pea-sized hail was accumulating on the tarmac at DIA. We flew all the way up into Wyoming and then came around the back side of the storm to land, but we still caught a little of it.

I work in Centennial, and we got grape-sized hail in enough quantity that it's still on the ground in drifts here this morning, but not big enough to damage my car out in the parking lot. Just rain on the house in springs.

Sure made the drive home yesterday evening "interesting"

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My wife and I got caught in that hail storm on I25 on the way home to the Springs. It was hailing so hard I to stop because I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me! Hundreds of dents all over the car and a broken drivers side mirror. Now I have to call the insurance co and argue with them. I'm still fighting them over my Suburban that was stolen 6 months ago.

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What's the argue about? This storm is already labeled as a CAT, so there shouldn't be any question about whether there was hail or not.

I have a # of anti Hail wear for sale.







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https://www.ar-15.co/images/tf_ideal...quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Cman https://www.ar-15.co/images/tf_ideal...post-right.png My wife and I got caught in that hail storm on I25 on the way home to the Springs. It was hailing so hard I to stop because I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me! Hundreds of dents all over the car and a broken drivers side mirror. Now I have to call the insurance co and argue with them. I'm still fighting them over my Suburban that was stolen 6 months ago.
What's the argue about? This storm is already labeled as a CAT, so there shouldn't be any question about whether there was hail or not.

The argument will be over the value of the LHS. I have custom paint - platinum pearl flames, 300 M performance suspension, rear spoiler, custom wood trim. I added these to the policy but this insurances co ignores these in it's appraisals of the cars value. I put $17,000 in parts into my Suburban that was stolen and they valued it at $2.900. I've been fighting that for the last 6 months. Bobs of Colorado apprised it at
$8300 plus 20% for the add-ons. As soon as this over I'm changing ins co!

Ahh, I see now. Good luck!

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https://www.ar-15.co/images/tf_ideal...quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Cman https://www.ar-15.co/images/tf_ideal...post-right.png My wife and I got caught in that hail storm on I25 on the way home to the Springs. It was hailing so hard I to stop because I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me! Hundreds of dents all over the car and a broken drivers side mirror. Now I have to call the insurance co and argue with them. I'm still fighting them over my Suburban that was stolen 6 months ago.
What's the argue about? This storm is already labeled as a CAT, so there shouldn't be any question about whether there was hail or not.

The argument will be over the value of the LHS. I have custom paint - platinum pearl flames, 300 M performance suspension, rear spoiler, custom wood trim. I added these to the policy but this insurances co ignores these in it's appraisals of the cars value. I put $17,000 in parts into my Suburban that was stolen and they valued it at $2.900. I've been fighting that for the last 6 months. Bobs of Colorado apprised it at
$8300 plus 20% for the add-ons. As soon as this over I'm changing ins co!

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Would you feel comfortable telling us which insurance co that is so we can avoid them or cancel ourselves, if we use them too? If you'd rather wait until it's all sorted and finalized, I understand.

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Would you feel comfortable telling us which insurance co that is so we can avoid them or cancel ourselves, if we use them too? If you'd rather wait until it's all sorted and finalized, I understand.

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What he is experiencing is very likely not unique to any one insurance company.

Is it possible to buy "stated value" insurance on a car? I don't have any exceptional cars right now, but I have in the past. With airplanes, you tell the insurance company what your plane is worth (stated value) and they either accept it and will sell you the insurance, or they'll say no. If the plane is totaled, they pay stated value without a fuss. I imagine it'd be more expensive with cars, but I'd buy it for the right car.

Anyone?

still have hail on the ground near arapahoe/dayton. roof damage (shake) and paint blasted off with some siding damage.

car took a beating, too.

Safeco is the ins co.

I was coming home from the mountains on Monday. We got rain, sleet and snow up the road west of Jefferson. Colors were peak but the storms over the weekend knocked off a lot of leaves.

The strom just went through as we were on 470. In the traffic I saw the snow plows and wondered if there was debris and saw 1-2 feet of hail they had removed from 470. My wife's coworkers vehicles got hammered in the tech center. Her's was safely tucked in our garage.

Sorry for those that were effected. If you are military or had/have immediate family military I suggest USAA insurance. My father was military and I have cars, home, guns, etc. Never had a problem with them.....not once with cars with hail damage, struck deer and two different roof replacements.

Another storm overhead now, wondering what it will bring

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Is it possible to buy "stated value" insurance on a car? I don't have any exceptional cars right now, but I have in the past. With airplanes, you tell the insurance company what your plane is worth (stated value) and they either accept it and will sell you the insurance, or they'll say no. If the plane is totaled, they pay stated value without a fuss. I imagine it'd be more expensive with cars, but I'd buy it for the right car.

Anyone?

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Yes, but that is usually for classics and customs. I don't believe most carriers (like Safeco/Liberty Mutual) offer those types of policies, but I honestly don't know as I've never had one or sold one.

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Safeco is the ins co.

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Since you mention Safeco, I have two words for you..... public adjuster.

Let me know if you need a reference to one that has a proven track record of 'dealing' with Safeco.

A public adjuster is a great way to lose money.

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A public adjuster is a great way to lose money.

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Didn't cost me a dime. Insurance company paid out WAAAYYYYYY more then their original offer.

We're talking property claims right?

I thought I would post a follow up. Adjusters and appraisers have all come and gone. House gets the two year old roof replaced plus gutters, downspouts, windows, screens, shed roof, barn roof and misc other yard items. The car at $5600 to repair was totaled and the truck at $3500 will be repaired. Now if I didn't have to deal with the $3500 in deductibles it would not be bad.

This brings me to a new issue that was discovered during the process. The 2003 car that I bought from an acquaintance in 2009 turns out to be a salvage. Neither me nor the acquaintance have had "salvage" on the title. According to my insurance company it was totaled in California then sold and the salvage title was processed through South Dakota then on to Colorado with a clean title. Clearly it was not a severely damaged car because since I've had it I have put 102K on it with just tires and breaks. My issue is that they now want to cut the settlement on the car in half because of the salvage title.