Mother of FUCK

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-04-25 07:12pm

Atlanta is getting heavy hail and a tornado; should be in Athens within a few hours. And my car is outside (can't wait to see how fucked up it is tomorrow).

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-04-25 08:12pm

Oh no! I had a car totaled in a hail storm.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-04-25 09:08pm

It snowed last Saturday in New Mexico. [shrugs]

mantakai · Post by **mantakai** » 2003-04-25 09:18pm

sounds like fun

hope your car isnt too fugged up

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-04-26 01:16am

Sounds like the shit that passed by us in N. Alabama. Seriously, that had to be the most lightning activity I've ever seen in this town. It was almost non stop for about thirty minutes. Dyamn!

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-26 01:36am

Shit ... you mean you can lose cars to hail storms ?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-04-26 01:52am

aphexmonster wrote:Shit ... you mean you can lose cars to hail storms ?

Not quite LOSE, but they get smashed up bigtime, $$$$ to repair

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-04-26 01:54am

aphexmonster wrote:Shit ... you mean you can lose cars to hail storms ? :(

Yes. There are parts of the country where it's possible to get golfball to softball-sized hail. Now imagine all of that, falling from an altitude of five miles up, impacting against a couple of millimeters of relatively soft sheet metal. It's very easy to total an automobile in a hailstorm.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-04-26 01:57am

You're right in the final analysis, but car sheet metal is by no means soft.

Stampede · Post by **Stampede** » 2003-04-26 02:01am

Sounds like the shit that passed by us in N. Alabama. Seriously, that had to be the most lightning activity I've ever seen in this town. It was almost non stop for about thirty minutes. Dyamn!

huh...i just thought your

mom

was raising her minions again...

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-04-26 02:02am

Howedar wrote:You're right in the final analysis, but car sheet metal is by no means soft.

But given the mere amount of hail that falls in a storm, and the height it falls from, in April 99 we had a big hailstorm here, and they still haven't finished all the repairs and insurance stuff.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-04-26 02:09am

As I said, his final point is entirely correct. Sheet metal, however, is not soft.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-04-26 02:10am

Howedar wrote:You're right in the final analysis, but car sheet metal is by no means soft.

It is when you drop a softball-sized hunk of ice on it from the top of a thunderstorm.

And car sheet-metal, when compared to other steels, is soft. A relatively gentle tap (from say, an errant shopping cart, or the door of the inconsiderate asshole who parked next to you,) that hardly disturbs the steel comprising the vehicle's chassis will deform sheet metal. A car gets virtually no structural integrity from it's sheet-metal exterior. All the structural integrity is provided by the chassis/frame.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-04-26 02:11am

That has nothing to do with hardness. It has to do with the fact that the metal is thin and goes for some distance between support members. It has little to do with the hardness of the metal.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-04-26 02:30am

If anything, if the body metal was harder, it would be far more expensive to replace--the metal would have large cracks in it instead of large dents.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-04-26 04:21am

Durran Korr wrote:Atlanta is getting heavy hail and a tornado; should be in Athens within a few hours. And my car is outside (can't wait to see how fucked up it is tomorrow).

Wow. And to think that here in Buffalo, it's finally warming up...

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