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2022 Spring Storms

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For Decay. F Clay Jenkins.
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Are schools closed in the spring?
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Please don't derail the purity of this thread.
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I wasn't joking... What actually is the best way to protect a car from hail? I've had decent luck by putting junk on top of my car... And by that I mean whenever I try to protect my car it doesn't hail
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Also f Clay Jenkins
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An old neighbor of mine would run out and put this on
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I've seen bags of mulch work well.
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Clean out the garage and park there.
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It amazes me how many homes in my area have 3 or 4 car garages and they have to park in their driveway.

A few are because builders build stupid garage doors that you can't fit a truck or SUV through the door, but many are because the people are packrat slobs.

Next door is a 5500 sqft home, 3 car garage, 2 adults and 1 kid. I laughed my ass off when their matching range rovers took the hail storm the other night.
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FincAg said:

Clean out the garage and park there.

My wife has the honor of parking in the garage. While there have been some valiant attempts, the battle is lost and my spot is now where a treadmill and workbench and lawnmower lives.

That inflatable thing seems neat though. We used to do mulch but it's in our flower bed now. Oh I had a fun lesson about using mulch and not soil. Giant wet bags of leaky dirt on top of the car... Awful for multiple reasons...
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I looked up the inflatable thing once, wasn't even that expensive.
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a few more things to move and we'll be able to get all 3 cars in the garage! it did take installing an attic lift and doing some serious rearranging but it makes me happy.

luckily the hail we got in prosper last week was negligent - my truck made it out alive.
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Did anyone else know Safelite can't do the quick windshield thing in your driveway if you have a fancy camera cruise control?! FYI because I spent three hours there last week.

Also no, it wasn't from hail. I think I cracked my windshield when I scraped off ice...
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Seriously. I don't feel bad for anyone that gets hail damage on their cars if they have the same number of cars as garage spots. Quit being a hoarder, clean out your garage, don't buy a vehicle that won't fit in said garage, and / or don't have a boat. If you aren't willing to do those things, hail damage is in your future. Dont complain when it happens.
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SoupNazi2001 said:

Seriously we have way too much stuff but still can fit our two cars in a small garage. Neighbors garage is filled top to bottom with boxes like a storage shed and can't park one car in his garage.


Yup. I always wave to my neighbors from the side porch as I watch them scramble to put mattresses and **** on their two cars every hail storm.

Three car garage, million dollar house, 5000 square feet, but they need their garage as a storage unit / hang out space to watch cable news all evening on the couch.

Weirdest damn people I know.
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When that describes my house I'll put all six of my cars in there
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Decay said:

Also f Clay Jenkins

And Carthage must be destroyed.
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Oh - we have a three car garage and two normally are in there. The third can go in if I roll my tool chest out of the garage, which I do for hail storms.
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My "two car garage" can't fit my F150. It's at least a foot too long. It's a converted car port and whoever converted it made it too small.
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GarlandAg2012 said:

My "two car garage" can't fit my F150. It's at least a foot too long. It's a converted car port and whoever converted it made it too small.


Feel like there is a 'that's what she said joke' somewhere in here.
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Since the Storm2K guys have moved to Spring, seems appropriate to post the link here.

https://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=122545&start=120

Latest updates seem to point to a drier Friday March 11th. Have not watched the local news today.
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Thanks for posting the link. I actually was coming in to add just now.
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Heads up for 35E and east this afternoon.

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Egg sized hail? No thanks.
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seems like awfully large range in size....
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gotta figure if you can get eggs, peas are possible too
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Ovary egg or chicken egg?
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SPC discussion:

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Given the cold temperatures aloft, hail will be possible within these storms, particularly the initial more cellular development and with any updraft augmentation that occurs as the line interacts with any cells ahead of it. Some very large (i.e. greater than 2" in diameter) hail is possible.
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Is that a huge hail core over HP?
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Dime size here in Murphy.
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AggieLostinDallas said:

Is that a huge hail core over HP?


I ordered up a hail hit on BMWs.
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I was driving north on 75 when it hit. Dime to marble size hail up until about Royal.
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DIme to marble sized in Frisco. Wife said didn't hit our house but I know it hit my car 1 mile north while I was standing inline at a Fedex. That was at 5:30.

Assume what's done is and done and limited risk of taking car out now in the same area?
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