Post it!

I was watching it from my garage and got pelted pretty good on the foot with a quarter size. Hurt pretty good.

Seemed like it was coming down harder than I remember hail falling in the past.

Wife has training in Denton, TX this week and getting her windshield replaced tomorrow morning. There are options!

SteveBott said:

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Post it!

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https://odysee.com/@kb2001:5/hail-damage-windshield:4

It hits the SUV in the near parking spot, two hits just above the driver's side windshield wipers.

Kind of crazy that both came in within a second of each other and hit side by side

Got me right at the VIN. Then a little on the other side.

Damn brother. That's rough.

LETS ALL GET NEW CARS AND TRUCKS!!'

I'm curious to see what USAA says after I go through the claims process. They don't total cars for "extensive hail damage" right? Just body shop stuff?

Woodan99 said:

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Damn brother. That's rough.

LETS ALL GET NEW CARS AND TRUCKS!!'

I'm curious to see what USAA says after I go through the claims process. They don't total cars for "extensive hail damage" right? Just body shop stuff?

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If it's bad enough they will total a car for hail

Insurance companies take the lowest cost route. So they compare total cost vs repair.

Thanks all

I have already had eight roofers stop by to leave their card. I looked at the phone number on one card and asked where their office was located. He said Houston but we will be opening an office in Austin soon. He then tells me he is a new employee. Nope!

The neighbors and I will probably use a local guy that one of the neighbors has used before with good results. He has been in the area for twenty years and has his own crew that have worked for him for several years.

This particular roofer talked with a group of us and said he would give our group a good price. He said he would meet my adjuster when he comes to inspect my roof. I will look him up to ensure he's legit

I'm happy to help vet any roofers you may be interested in going with. I can give recommendations or just share any feedback on the ones you have. I work with one of the biggest suppliers in town so if I haven't personally worked with these roofers then someone I work with has. We'll be delivering lots of shingles to your neighborhoods soon.

737 23five 0537

was looking at our cars at 6 this morning, and a roofer was across the street putting a sign down. Made an appointment on the spot. I have Class 4 shingles, so well see.

We didn't get the baseball hail, but it was coming down like the Angels were emptying out every ice machine in Heaven.

AggieT12 said:

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I'm happy to help vet any roofers you may be interested in going with. I can give recommendations or just share any feedback on the ones you have. I work with one of the biggest suppliers in town so if I haven't personally worked with these roofers then someone I work with has. We'll be delivering lots of shingles to your neighborhoods soon.

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Who are you with? Have we met? Shoot me a PM. I work in Austin a bit each year and I'll be there obviously a lot more coming up. I'd like to swing by and say hey if we haven't met.

Another Texags hookup.

talked to my neighbor in Jonestown. we didn't get any hail. we also didn't get 1 single drop of rain.

When we lived in DFW we got hit with cantaloupe sized hail. I was watching the storm and decided to leave work early to clean the garage so I could get both cars in. It started to lightly drizzle when I was pulling in my truck. By the time I jumped out and pulled my wife's car in (I'd guess 10-15 seconds later) it started coming down. This is the damage done to my wife's car. I still can't believe how quickly it went from a minor drizzle to all hell breaking loose.

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You live close to me. I'm in brushy creek by cat hollow park.

That was interesting how the trees stopped windshield breaks. What a night

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I live by Cat Hollow too - right behind the park on Sabertooth. Howdy!

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It seemed to be laser focused on 35. Hell even like 6 blocks over they didn't get hit. My whole neighborhood got hammered

Every other house is missing back windows in their cars. Somehow I'm happy that we just have cracked windshields.

USAA claims filed!

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That looks like a nice old X5 there. Insurance may total it. My daughter had one similar and hit a telephone pole with it. Adjuster told me the hood alone was $1700. Hers was a 5spd manual. It was a fun little suv.

This was when Q2 Stadium lost power during the storm - very briefly

Crazy scene from the @AustinFC game last night. This video was sent in by Chris Thias. @KVUE pic.twitter.com/4bZ1bKCTAu

— Ford Sanders KVUE (@fordsandersTV) September 25, 2023

If anyone needs a roofer, send me a dm and I'll give out my roofer to you. He's been my roofer for a least a decade

That works too.

Just throwing it out there that I'm a builder here in austin and have a good roofer that we ve used for at least a decade who is trustworthy and well priced if anyone needs help

I'm in OakBrook right next to you and my street had very little hail or damage.

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We got pretty beat up. 11 broken windows, some holes in the side of the house, roof and solar panels beat to hell, gutters wrecked, one roof vent knocked sideways. 1 broken windshield, lots of dents in all 4 cars.

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Hmm, didn't think about solar panels in this mess. They must have got obliterated...are they even functional now?

We just installed a tesla roof on a job. I wonder how that would have fared in this storm. The telsa guys said they'd never had to repair for a hail storm but I think this might have been the one

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Class IV impact resistant shingles will no doubt be on everyone's mind. Be aware that they are currently in limited supply. My San Antonio and Austin roof materials have been delivered from my Katy supplier for this reason. Be prepared for possible delays on those as things filter through the repair process.

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My 2 year old roof with Class IV shingles didn't survive that storm.

Roofers must have very detailed maps for damage. When we had the tornado we had sales walkers in the street within an hour. I must have had 25 business cards in a week and more after that. This storm not a single one. Had some sales calls but that's it. Not even many of those.

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My last post? It's aimed at the mechanics of how this is all going to go down.

8am or sooner, residents are going to have knocks on their doors from mostly close proximity roofers. There will be seasoned vets and lots of new reps that started working after April of this year and are hungry to make a sale.

By 10am you'll start seeing the out of town area codes. Any company within a few hours drive. Some old hands and lots of new guys. Not necessarily a bad thing but will they be around if there is an issue later?

By lunch time you might start seeing out of state plates on trucks. These could just be crews looking for easy work and fast money. You'll see corollas with ladders sticking out of the windows. That's not ideal.

My colleagues in Colorado, Montana, and Virginia sent me texts to me about the Hail before the hail maps sent out notifications. So, every roofer in the nation knows about it.

I've worked every major storm in south and and central Texas for many years. Every single time I hear about someone losing money and sometimes large chunks of it. That sweet old couple down the street that waves to your kids in the yard are very trusting and will respond to fear from some of these guys. Most of these situations are from out of town/state roofers requiring money up front. I work San Antonio, Austin, and Houston and maintain business cards with our local offices on them. My crews are local as well. My Houston crew doesn't install my San Antonio or Austin roofing, so, if there is an issue, my local crew handles it.

It's a big industry and because it's unregulated (as opposed to Florida) it is very easy to scam people.

You're friend, you, me, anyone else….we aren't going to be able to help a customer if they've already lost half their money to some hack, so it's work mentioning.

Most people just don't replace roofing that often and expect that the guy at the door is legit and honest. That's not the case in big storms.

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I wonder if I passed by your house in RR yesterday. It had two nice looking back Infinity trucks

Already got my entire roof, shed roof and gutters approved. Working on getting some more for the fence. Surprisingly there isn't any damage to the house below the roof.

Weddingtons Coffee said:

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Already got my entire roof, shed roof and gutters approved. Working on getting some more for the fence. Surprisingly there isn't any damage to the house below the roof.

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The only damage done below the roof is to our hearts from the Conner news

My company does everything you have listed in case you'd like another quote.

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Jason_InfinityRoofer said:

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Class IV impact resistant shingles will no doubt be on everyone's mind. Be aware that they are currently in limited supply. My San Antonio and Austin roof materials have been delivered from my Katy supplier for this reason. Be prepared for possible delays on those as things filter through the repair process.

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My 2 year old roof with Class IV shingles didn't survive that storm.

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Correct. It won't survive this kind of storm. However, it will survive the storms we've had in Austin in MOST cases. I only mentioned it because that's the first thing people ask me in regards to replacing it. Class IV shingles are tested with a. 2" ball bearing dropped from 20' multiple times. The shingle is inspected for damage to the matting and cracking. The hail Austin received in some places will seriously damage a standing seam roof. I'll have to find my photos of the Hondo storm where I did a bunch of metal replacements. It was wild.