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Guess it's a good time to start this years thread.
Got hammered, pea sized to up to baseball sized and more forecast for tomorrow. Not looking forward to seeing cars in daylight.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b5aef44187.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...918b775b3e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e38e939ed5.jpg
If you're unarmed, you are a victim.
Ugh, bad juju.....
I think I got lucky. Hailed for about twenty minutes but I only saw a few pieces that were about the size of a quarter. Most of it was marble or pea sized. I don?t anticipate any damage to my vehicles or roof but who knows.
My truck looks like hell in the dark. We had a good 45 minutes of hail. The first wave was the big thumpers on the roof. Then constant marble to 1?.
Damnit.
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As a kid in OK, I remember one time the hailstones were so big and the yard was so saturated they didn't even bounce, they just stuck in the ground. Now there were some fucked up cars and roofs all over town that time! Just beat the hell out of things.
One of my neighbors bought their first home. Lightning set the attic on fire a few weeks ago. Loud enough that I immediately stood straight up at 3am.
Incredible storm last night?
This should be interesting, my truck is sitting at the dealership 7 miles away with a transmission issue. I am driving a loaner which is a ?23 F150.
My insurance is what covers the loaner as well to my understanding.
If they both look like a golf ball???[facepalm]
Unless the dealership has insurance on it. Then yours will be on the hook for deductible.
It could always be worse. I have some 1? stones in the backyard this morning, after melting all night. Doesn?t look as bad as the pictures I?m seeing from Erie. My poor truck with the aluminum hood! Ugh
It did a number on the patio cover.
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These are 1? squares on the table cover. I guess some of these are still larger than an inch this morning, 7 hours after the storm.
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I think I got lucky. I had the truck parked close to the hotel here in Loveland, and it doesn't appear to have any damage. I don't want a repeat of the hailstorm last year.
That's certainly the drawback of aluminum hoods in our area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frac
I was once stuck in traffic in a nasty hail storm alongside a coworker (people stopped under the overpass and completely blocked traffic forcing everyone to sit in the storm rather than have a chance to drive out of it). He was in his F150 and me in a Tundra. His truck got jacked up. Mine didn't have a single dent.
Steel FTW.
We lucked out in Ft. Collins...finally. I've lost two vehicles to hail. Both company cars, though! That's why I bought the truck I did, it just fits in the garage.
We did hear the storm last night, however, and constant flashes. did have a few close hits. It went on for hours.
I think we dodged it in Timnath too. But I also might have slept through the worst of it and woke up after any hail melted, so I don't know.
Yep, we are in the same neighborhood and found some of those in my front yard this morning. Both our cars are in the garage, but my neighbor his Jeep and his daughter's BRAND NEW ford (transit sticker still) were in the driveway and the hoods went through a war zone............. His daughter was actually crying this morning he said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frac
It hailed hard here for 45 minutes and we got an inch and a half of hail on the ground, all under one inch diameter. This morning it was fused together in a sheet of ice everywhere. We've never gotten hail stones large enough to cause auto damage, but it can sure chew up the emerging vegetation.
After the storm last night, a large boar bear came through the yard at 10:33 pm, and again at 3:15 am this morning. Caught on two trail cams. The electric fence was energized and the bear didn't get closer than 25 ft. from the house, but a raccoon did get through. The raccoon looks as big as a cub bear.
Couldn't believe it this morning, damage was minor, couldn't have been more lucky, probably only one auto claim for body damage and one for a windshield.
Only marble sized hail for couple minutes today, nearby tornado was small and no damage for us.
We got hit today, we have damage in Franktown area, screens torn, siding damaged, and pieces of shingle in the yard. Trees and shrubs took a beating. I was in southlands area when it hit, all small hail there but several inches in the streets, glad I had 4WD.
As far as I know, we only got rain here in Parker, mostly light rain. Was pretty nasty about 3-3:30 when the storm hit, but calmed down quickly. No hail at all that I know of.
From Tuesday night. Got lucky and not really large hail and last night just rain.
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O2
and speaking of rain, I dumped out 2.6" this morning and I suspect at the rate it's coming today and predicted for all night, I'll dump that much out plus some.
Wake me when we get back from Seattle.
Not that I'm complaining because lord knows we need the moisture, but I've never seen it rain this much this long ever in Colo.
Rain in retention ponds and especially the one in the distance. It was empty the other day. More rain than I have seen in a few years.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a464b80e2d.jpg
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The rain and floods in Longmont in 2016? It wiped out the sewage treatment plants in Evans co.Quote:
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Thanks for the info. I thought I was sharing the link not my drive.Quote:
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Looks like what we had down here, this winter. Monsoon season's not too far off.Quote:
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We hit 4? of rain near Castle Rock since it started, not counting whatever we got from the hail. Can?t remember the last time we got this much rain.
Started raining at my place around 3:30p yesterday. We just hit 4".
My sump has been bone dry for ten years. I wasn't convinced that it would even work. I went down to check it and found water covering it. Uh oh.
I went to get a mallet, because nothing fixes things better than a good 'ol smack from a hammer. As I walked back up to the sump and reached to grab the pump to dish out some punishment, it switched on. Thank goodness.
Our 16 year old, long dry sump pump is running every 5 minutes now.
Our neighborhood park, that also serves as a retention pound, is just about full. It's a full on lake. Never seen more than a puddle in it. It's 3 or 4ft deep now and doing its job. Whatever civil engineer that designed the drainage in our neighborhood deserves a beer. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f3ac0ebf9f.jpg
I would love to see my old driveway today.
Lots of fields shedding water. I had it under control when I was there, but the current owners removed the wheat field.
As like many of you I can't remember it raining this long in the 39 years I've lived here. The lawn's gonna be a bitch to mow when it stops! Not a bad problem to have. Stay dry everyone.
Our sump pump's been coming on every 2 minutes like a maniac for a couple of days now. The rubber coupler from the pipe at the house to the pipe across the yard cracked from age and was geysering water right next to the foundation, which then just ran back down to the French drain and sump. Patched that with some Flex Seal tape (nasty shit), stopped the leaking but the pump's still trying to keep up.
Don't feel so bad now about not having the sprinklers turned on yet.....glad I didn't put any fertilizer down yet, grass is gonna grow like crazy now.
We're up to 5.6" now. I think Denver averages 15" total precipitation a year. We got a 1/3rd of that in less than 48 hours.
4 5/8" at 10:00 am yesterday. 3 1/4" as of 6:00 am this morning. Just under 8" for the two days. I am in NW Colo Springs. Drainage is very good here, don't have to look for a boat.
I dumped 4.3" yesterday when I got home from work and just dumped the rain gauge again with another 4.5" putting this storm total at 11.4" here at the house. Just crazy.
I work at the Pinery Water treatment Plant and from all the inflow primarily from manhole lids, we set new records of water treated. Was a real test of the capacity ability of the plant. Glad i wasn't the one on call last night.
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Everything in area is a lake. Hwy 79 is closed at Irondale Rd due to flooding and washout at curve going into Bennett.
If you're unarmed, you are a victim.
Here's a crazy visual. It rained at my house at a rate of 5.34" per hour last night, for almost 20 mins. I was asleep, but that's dumping. Not sure I've ever seen rain like that. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e26175387d.jpg
I went to Lowe's and bought some lumber. I am building an ark.
How big is a cubit?
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Someone snuck in and installed a water feature in my spare room.
It could be worse. I just have a roof leak. Several of the garden level condos are flooded.
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We are up to 5.6 inches this morning, looks like it could rain off and on all weekend. At least the sun seems to be trying to make an appearance now.
I'm going to Monster Jam with the kids tomorrow. That could get interesting if it keeps raining.Quote:
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