Hail Damage Blog

Man, there have been a lot of storms producing a lot of hail damage in the last few days. Here's a re-cap of what I have heard about or found news stories on.

Arlington, TX

McKinney, TX

I think everyone has probably already heard about these storms but I wanted to go ahead and include them in this report. They have both been all over the national news so I didn't bother to find any sources on them. All reports say there is widespread, sometimes heavy, damage in these areas with a lot of property hailstorm damage claims.

Odessa, TX

You can read about the hail storm and the hail damage it caused here and here. It looks like the hail damage ranges from light on the West side to moderate on the East with everything else between them. One of the stories above shows pics of the damage and it looks pretty nice.

Tulsa, OK

Everything I'm hearing says the South side of Tulsa is hit with some pretty good hail damage. There are already quite a few guys working that storm already.

Fort Smith, Van Buren, Alma & Ozark, AR

My sources tell me the storm started dropping hail about the middle of Ft. Smith and continued East across the river into Van Buren and down the interstate through Alma and Ozark as well as the other small towns in the path. The majority of the damage seems to be on the East side of Ft. Smith and all of Van Buren. From what I'm hearing, these areas are very hard hit. (Worse than Texarkana)

Huntsville, AL Area

This story discusses some hailstorm damage in rural areas around Huntville, AL. I don't have any idea how widespread this damage may be or how many claims may come out of it but the report was one I hadn't heard anything about before so I thought I'd pass it along.

Texarkana Loss Figures

Well, it looks like the numbers are just about all in for the Texarkana, AR & TX Hail Storm. This news story puts the total insurance losses at $155 Million. Nice Storm!

Keep Your Head

Guys, I have already heard a few horror stories about some ridiculous lo-balling of prices this year. I understand last year was bad and everyone needs to generate cash flow this year but there is some serious hail falling this year. Remember, the prices you quote this year will effect the prices for the whole industry for years to come.

Sell your value and benefits guys, not cheapest price.

This is shaping up to be a pretty darn decent year. Everybody be safe and make some money!

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# posted by Hail Chaser : 8:37 AM  4 comments

Since there aren't any storms going on right now I thought I'd post a couple of hail videos I found. It's funny to see how these "professional" storm chasers react to a hailstorm.

This one was shot just outside of Henrietta, TX on April 3, 2008 and has some decent video of golfball to baseball size hail.

This one is from Central Oklahoma and was shot on March 30, 2008. If you close your eyes and listen, it sounds like a bunch of high school kids in the vehicle. I'm afraid these guys will end up on the news one day because they accidentally drove right into a tornado.

That's it for now.

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# posted by Hail Chaser : 9:17 AM  2 comments

The early reports coming out of the Dallas news media give the impression that there is some legitimate damage in the North Metroplex area. Just going by the pictures in the galleries, it looks like there was tons of small hail and some really big stuff mixed in.

The news sources I was able to find right away are listed below.

• This is a news station weather blog. If you scroll down to the entry for 2:37 AM there is a pic of a hailstone from Decatur.
• This is a viewer submitted gallery of pics showing large hail from Flower Mound and Krumm.
• This is just another news story with some pics from the area.

Just to recap, the following North Texas cities have bee verified to have had large damaging hail form the April 4, 2008 storm:

Decatur, TX

Flower Mound, TX

Krumm, TX

Have fun and be safe!

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# posted by Hail Chaser : 8:01 AM  0 comments

First of all I want to say Thanks! to all of you who sent me an email. I'm trying to respond to each one but it may take a little while. Be patient with me. It's a little hectic, as you can imagine.

Texarkana

Man, all I can say is, WOW! The whole place is HAMMERED!

I wanted to be sure to explain to you guys what you were getting into if you make this run. First of all, if you can't work big dents don't even bother. If hard hit cars make you uncomfortable, skip it.

This is one of those storms guys. There will be some money made but it won't come easily. This is going to be some really tough work and, unfortunately, there are some outfits (I'm not going to name names...yet) that are obviously so desperate that they are already giving the farm away to try to lock down some work.

There will probably be a lot of technicians cycling through the shops on this storm. If you aren't used to working hard-hit cars, save your money and catch another storm. This is no place for the faint hearted dent pusher.

As far as roofers go, I would think just about every roof in Texarkana will be eligible for replacement.

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# posted by Hail Chaser : 10:17 PM  3 comments

The Texarkana hail damage reports are totally and completely legitimate.

Well, well, well boys and girls, this is the one we've all been waiting for. And I do mean all. There is wide-spread and heavy hail damage in and around Texarkana, Texas and Arkansas. Here's a blog post with a picture of some roof damage.

The hail damage extends from several miles West of town to several miles East of town. The damage ranges from heavy golfball to extreme Baseball. You don't have to get out and walk the Wal-Mart parking lot to see this damage, it's obvious from the road.

I'm not going to go into specifics but the early numbers on the auto claims make it look like there may very well end up being more hail claims in Texarkana than there were in Atlanta.

This is a real-deal storm and there are going to be a ton of techs and roofers working it for a long time.

If you are an experienced PDR technician, drop me an email and we'll see about getting you some work.

# posted by Hail Chaser : 5:35 PM  0 comments