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Real Estate Agent with Coldwell Banker Residential

Wednesday night we got a hail storm in East Dallas, where I live and where my office is located.  It was a remarkable storm.  We experiences about 10 minutes of continuous and heavy golfball sized hail.   It stripped leaves off trees and did real damage to area roofs and cars and anything else caught outdoors away from shelter.  10 minutes of continuous heavy golfball-sized hail you can just count on the roof being totaled.  Period.  Things other than roofs were also seriously damaged.

There are blue tarps over roofs all over the Lakewood area of East Dallas.  I have seen ceramic tile and slate roofs that look like someone took a baseball bat to them.  I have a client who had all 6 of her skylights totaled.  All the windows on her cars were distroyed, as was her yard furniture.  Her roof is totaled.

At my condo complex, the roof is most likely totaled.  That roof was replaced about 6 years ago.  In addition to the roof, siding, flashing, and the carports have been heavily damaged.

An Agent at my office lost 16 windows at her house.  Another agent had hail come through the windows at her apartment and almost hit her dog.  She said that he high-tailed it into the windowless bathroom and stayed there until it was over.

Two of the agents who were at the office just before it hit had a chance to move their cars out of a surface parking lot into the secure covered parking garage.  They got to the security gate where they discovered that neither of them had brought the keyfob they needed to get into the garage.  One of them ran back to the office, got the keyfob, ran back to his car and got the gate opened, just before the hail began.

If you are getting ready to move to Dallas, please don't think that hail like this is normal or typical.  I haven't seen hail this size in 40+ years and even then, it didn't fall at the rate we saw this week. 

 

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Comments (5)

Laura Allen, Lake Tahoe - Truckee Real Estate for Sale TahoeLauraRealEstate.com
Coldwell Banker Realty, Tahoe City, CA (530) 414-1260 - Tahoe City, CA
Tahoe Real Estate Agent Helping Buyers and Sellers

Judith - That sounds like quite a storm.  It's impressive what mother nature can do!

Jun 16, 2012 05:00 AM
Adrian Willanger
206 909-7536 AdrianWillanger-broker.com - Seattle, WA
Profit from my two decades of experience

Judith, that's one on me, I've never seen anything like you mentioned, what a mess, I'm glad you and your office colleagues escaped with much damage. 

Jun 16, 2012 05:47 AM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

My husband's car was damaged in a hail storm once and it was a pain in the neck to get it back to normal.

Jun 16, 2012 09:18 AM
Brenda Mullen
RE/MAX Associates - San Antonio, TX
Your San Antonio TX Real Estate Agent!!

Wow, we can get hail here in San Antonio but haven't had that big of a storm in a while.  Hail can do some major damage for sure!

Jun 21, 2012 10:32 AM
Paul Gapski
Berkshire Hathaway / Prudential Ca Realty - El Cajon, CA
619-504-8999,#1 Resource SD Relo
 

Thank you for sharing your blog; we need Real estate Professionals to share their comments and information regarding their markets and experiences. Thanks again from beautiful Sunny San Diego

Jul 19, 2012 01:22 AM