Hail Forcasted - No Garage - Improvisation

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Your wife is going to return to this argument at some point to "finish it" in a manner that's to her benefit....i.e. the "14-year vacation"
She doesn't remember crap that long LOL!
 

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COVER IT WITH SOMETHING!! We went to dinner one night. A freak store blew in with small hail stones. I noticed a couple of small dents on one rail. Brough the truck to Dent Pro. They put their special light on it ---holly sh*t. The estimate was $3300. Ford recalled the 2019 truck, little dents and all. Very lucky, cover it!
 

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I use to get up, even at 3am and go to car wash when we would get warnings. Glad I have a garage now.
 

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Also, when we first moved in, it was just a free-standing shed with no floor. We had a cement floor poured that encompassed all existing uprights, so I think that helped strenghten it.
Never seen one, and I’m certainly not endorsing or recommending it, but things like this are available.

https://hailprotector.com/
That is amoung the dumbest things I have ever seen. Furthermore if you watch his explaination of terminal velosity from a 19 foot lift- he clearly knows nothing about the acceleration of gravity.
 


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I bought a 10x10 party tent from biglots for $99
 
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I bought a 10x10 party tent from biglots for $99
You mean one of those things that go airborne everytime the wind blows? Seriously, it might be fine, but I usually don't experience hail without wind.
 

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Ranger fits in the garage. Wife's minivan doesn't (too wide) so I figure if the forecast is for large and bad hail I'll drive it across town to the quarter car wash and park it in one of the stalls.
 

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Probably not necessary...anything baseball size hail would beat the frame down anyway and cost $10,000...
That reminds me, why do they use coins to describe hail size? I mean, I have never seen hail shaped like a dime. Am I right? Now if they said "we have reports of hail the diameter of a quarter", that would make sense. vs "quarter size hail."
 

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That reminds me, why do they use coins to describe hail size? I mean, I have never seen hail shaped like a dime. Am I right? Now if they said "we have reports of hail the diameter of a quarter", that would make sense. vs "quarter size hail."
Most college graduates these days probably don't know what "diameter" means...
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