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  1. 6th March 2010, 02:34 PM #1
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    golf ball hail - bayswater today

    just went out to get some food - 5mins later.... *Bang* on the rangie roof!!!

    The size was huge - never seen hail so big before - fangged the rangie round the back of the shops & parked close to the building - was awesome!

    Good rain as well just thought I'd share
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  2. 6th March 2010, 03:29 PM #2
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    Call from my son in Caroline Springs about an hour ago -

    "There's been this tremendous hailstorm and the gutters and the roof gully are filled with hailstones and the roof is leaking!"

    Not sure what I was supposed to do 1,000km away! Both his cars were under cover, although a bit wet underfoot - the hail banked up and made a dam so the water ran under the doors.

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  3. 6th March 2010, 03:34 PM #3
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    My wife was in the city & left her Disco out in the street. I was expecting the storm but not hailstones the size of 20c coins +.
    By the time I found her keys & got it in the carport I was drenched. Jeez those hailstones hurt when they hit your bald patch !!

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  4. 6th March 2010, 04:21 PM #4
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    Bloody Hailstones!

    We just got hit by golf ball size hailstones here in the Dandenong Ranges.
    The wife's Falcon wagon his peppered with dents in the roof and bonnet, The disco as a few also.
    Now has any one had these type of dents repaired successfully.
    Seems it'll cost us out basic excess of around $500 for each vehicle, so I don't know how much the repair bill is yet.
    But the Falcon has an agreed value of only $3750, and the Disco 1996 V8 is market value, so probably very little value knowing the insurance
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    Yep.

    Disco II...smashed windscreen, smashed scupper plate?? numerous dents in bonnet, roof ect. She's stuffed.

    House....holes peppered through lazerlite pergola roof. Numerous tree branches down.

    You just don't know how I feel....

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  6. 6th March 2010, 04:46 PM #6
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    MY Triton is now sporting a nice ding in a spot that's gonna be hard to remove in the roof

    Got home to check out the house and Defender - No Damage there
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  7. 6th March 2010, 04:57 PM #7
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    yeah while the rangie copped a few to the roof I can't see any damage - I thought the roof racks might have helped there as I have a wire mesh with them as well
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    Friends in Lysterfield have had a Corolla and 100 Series cruiser trashed and windows on the house broken. We got off light with some water back washing over the the fascias and coming inside via the window frames.
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    Yeah my partners car now has a few dents in the roof,bonnet and side panels. Shes not to happy.They were the size of golf balls here.I took some pics of them.I will try to post them up later.
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  10. 6th March 2010, 07:54 PM #10
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    Spent the last few hours boarding up windows at my mates house in Lysterfield. They copped it much worse than we did in Bayswater. My Rangie has a few addition dents in the roof.
    My mates house has 7 broken windows, his 2 month old Rangie Sport is a write off as his Mercedes van and his mother in laws rav 4.

    Even the steel meshed security door on the house has holes torn through it.
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