golf ball size hail is on the way.. im F'd

[Tree18is]

i hate texas. it sucks so bad. so whats to do when the hail comes?
im from California. so i don't deal with hail.
any ideas would be good. if it does come down my plan is to drive to the car wash.

[Mike325]

Get some pillowes and a tarp. Tape the pillowes to your car to hold them down, then secure the tarp over the whole car tightly. Or a parking garage ftw.

[mikeltang]

damn texas weather..im moving to dallas in august. my needs help around the house since shes getting old. i say buy one of those enclosed car tents. thats probably what im gonna do when i move there.

[Maluco]

One HAIL of a Friday the 13th...

damn, I just got home from the shop. We had cars packed in there about an inch from each other. The hail was not that bad, about the size of a dime or so. The tornado sirens were going off as well. However there were reports of tea-cup sized hail outside of Ft. Worth. Hail, second only to tornados, is the shit I most hate about Texas' weather......

I've heard of people putting pillows under a car cover and still finding a few dings.

[CleanAzzE30z]

It was like 80+ today.....sucks for you. ;)


Mariano

[Jand3rson]

Find a friend who's got a spare spot in his garage.

I love having a garage.

[JasonC]

I lived in Decatur, IL for most of my life till i moved back here. I remember a storm that came through with hail a little bigger then a golf ball and smaller then a baseball. That was a sight to see and hear

[Mastrcruse]

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=75715&page=2&highlight=Hail

Pictures on second page, second post. Towels FTW!!!

[xLibelle]

i had an old spare matress for just this while living in appartments in atl

[JAM]

a local e46 guy...

from a couple years ago



i was sleeping under that comforter about 5 minutes before this picture was taken.

[bimmer8604]

find a near by bank or gas station. the trick is to get there before the hail starts.

[ak96ss]

I was getting ready to move from West Texas to Maryland. The packers were at the house, packing all my crap up. The garage was the last to get packed, and is where they had staged a bunch of other boxes, so it was pretty much full of junk. This was to be my last day in Texas.

Hail storm blew in, accompanied by tornado sirens and such. It moved FAST, and there was nothing I could do - there was no room for the car (a 1996 Impala SS) and there was no where to go.

Every single body panel was dented - hood, trunk, roof, all four doors, the fenders, the quarter panels.

Repair bill came to over $6k.

[Digitalwave]

It started hailing out of no where on Tuesday, only the 3rd or so time I've ever seen hail in FL. It was small so no damage done to the cars, thankfully.

[AdironRider]

A microburst sent golf to baseball size hail through my town last summer. I was working at the pool at the time and just had to sit and watch from the guard shack while my car got pelted. Hood and trunk lid have about 40 dimples each, but the rest of the car turned out ok with just a few dents.

[M42Technik]

There's a parking lot structure that stays open 24/7 at a Kaiser Permanente. Parked it there once when we had a hurricane warning (for MD wtf).

Not the safest place to leave it, but its not far from my home and it saved my car from falling tree branches and such. Probably going to leave it there tomorrow, we have a big storm coming this way.