Ok, this is enough. I've been in the Black Hills of SD since the first of July. I've been in 4 hail storms, none really bad until this evening. Hail the size of golf balls or bigger.
Broke one of my vents and put several holes in slide out covers. Also put several dimples in my truck!
I've really enjoyed the weather here and was woundering if this is normal?
I hope to return next year and workamp for the summer.
Oh we'll I guess I have to take the food with the bad.
will survey the damage in the morning.
Jim
-- Edited by Cowdog353 on Wednesday 4th of September 2013 08:21:22 PM
Workinrvers said
10:23 PM Sep 4, 2013
I'm with ya Jim. I was at work (Crazy Horse) and rode the bike in. I had it covered with the 1/2 cover but I still got some healthy dents in the front fender. The pick up truck parked next to it had dents all over and a broken windshield. We had several cars in our lot that had broken glass and lots of big dents. No obvious damage to the Motor home but will be checking the roof out in the morning. Here is a video I took while it was coming down.
Phil
-- Edited by Workinrvers on Wednesday 4th of September 2013 11:10:18 PM
Dance Chick said
03:51 AM Sep 5, 2013
Boy, that doesn't sound like much fun!!
I'm sure someone else can probably comment on what weather is usually like there from a more long-term perspective, but we were there the end of July-first of August in 2012 for a week, and the weather was wonderful.
My guess is weather can't be predicted from year to year.
We're from Florida and lived through 3 back-to-back hurricanes in 2004. Would I say that's normal - no. It had never happened before in my lifetime and hasn't happened since, but I guess it could happen again as who knows what weather will do. I hope the damage is minimal.
Cowdog353 said
01:52 PM Sep 5, 2013
I will have to check the top of the 5r also, I know for sure one vent cover was broken. Sure was coming down for awhile. I wonder if Custer got hit like last time( about 5-6" on the ground). Oh, we'll still a great place to be!
Jim
NWescapee said
02:18 PM Sep 5, 2013
Jim - During the 2 weeks we were there in August I asked one of the long time work campers at Happy Holiday Resort if this was normal. She's work camped at the same resort for 4 years, she said this year was really unusual. Last year was so dry no one was allowed to use their fire pit, outdoor propane stoves or any kind of device that had a live flame.
Jim, Phil & Rudee - hope the damage isn't too severe and you can get the repairs done quickly.
Lucky Mike said
03:21 PM Sep 5, 2013
The old Cliche....you can run ,but you cannot hide applies to mother nature. We can select the beauty of where we go yet we have not figured out how to control the weather.
Hoping your damage is minimal and the weather turns for the better , sunny days are coming!!!
Live , Breathe , Relax.........Life is good!!!!! (RVing makes it better!!)
Workinrvers said
05:33 PM Sep 5, 2013
NWescapee wrote:
Jim, Phil & Rudee - hope the damage isn't too severe and you can get the repairs done quickly.
Our truck is beat up pretty bad on every panel plus the windshield is broken, the tauneau cover has dimples and some pin holes. The hail even broke the windshield wipers! Motorhome fared a little better, the outside compartment doors have several dents each, the slide out awnings and window awnings have some small pin holes and tears, the shower skylight is cracked and we lost a couple of the outside light lenses. Luckily our a/c is in the basement as most of our neighbors lost their a/c covers.
Insurance should cover most of the damage but I'm sure getting tired of filing claims. Between the flood this spring, Rudee's cancer in April, then her heart problems last month and now this damage it seems like all we do is talk to insurance companies about one thing or another.
I sure will be glad when this run of bad luck turns around for us but being fulltimers is still better then the alternative.
Phil
Cowdog353 said
09:58 PM Sep 5, 2013
I just started the insurance claim game. (State Farm) they said it would take a few days
to set up a claim center. Sure hope its close!
Yes, I bet y'all are tired of playing with the insurance companies. Get all this bad luck out of the way and will be clear sailing from now on.
Will be a pain to hook up tow and see claims adjuster then set back up again, and won't even be setting up in a new location!
Oh well as you said it sure beats the alternative.
Keep an eye to the sky as clouds are building to the north again.
Jim
Loretta said
12:46 AM Sep 6, 2013
It looks like Bill and I made it out of SD just in time. We are parked here at Devils Tower since last night and we had quite a storm here. Just lots of lightning and thunder and rain. Hope all of your stuff is taken care of quickly. We had never seen so many hail storms as we have since we were parked there.
Cowdog353 said
02:31 AM Sep 6, 2013
Glad y'all missed this one it was more of a hail storm than all the others. Hope to make a side trip to Devils tower before I leave here.
Thanks for the well wishes, y'all be safe.
Jim
Loretta said
05:41 AM Sep 6, 2013
Thanks Jim, Devil's Tower is definitely a must-see.
Workinrvers said
05:51 AM Sep 6, 2013
Loretta,
The storm was typical for this area ..... large hail in Custer but nothing just up the road from us so you guys woulod have been OK more than likely.
Glad you guys got away OK though because who knows where the next one is going to hit.
Loretta said
05:56 AM Sep 6, 2013
So true. I am hoping that luck will be on our side while we travel West. We just don't want to hit any snow in the mountains.
NWescapee said
01:18 AM Sep 10, 2013
Loretta - not sure where you are tonight but hoping you are a long way from Northern Colorado!! Wild weather rolling through here this afternoon / evening, kind of weird to sit in the RV and watch it come in and then feel the 5'ver rocking with the winds. No hail yet (praying that none develops) but lots of wind, rain, lightening and LOUD crashes of thunder. Dale's new radar app on his phone is showing us where the most intense storms are, something tells me we'll be monitoring the phone all night.
Loretta said
04:27 AM Sep 10, 2013
We are in CA. The pass was not that bad. There was a 7%not listed. Don't stop at Dutch Flat. We are here but will move next week. Sorry you are in such bad weaher. Hope it won't be long before you can leave. Very hot here. Next week it is supposed to cool down.
Laura and Bunk said
04:40 AM Sep 17, 2013
We were in Mitchell SD the 5th of May, 2012. A hail storm totaled our 6 month old car (4500 miles) and took out everything on our RV roof. Some car dealerships across the road just got deliveries of new cars, several million in losses. Thank goodness for good insurance. DH and I decided to stay out of SD. Thought it would be just in the spring of the year.
After the storm passed I called our insurance company, while talking to the agent another storm came through, she told us to call back later Sounded like we were in a bomb shelter. Spencer was not afraid of thunder storms before, he runs and hides now if he hears or feels a storm.
Good luck going forward, maybe you have used up all your bad luck for a while!
RVRon said
02:02 PM Sep 17, 2013
What is it with hail in that area? We were in Rapid City/Black Hills area for a week in late July and it seemed like we got hail every single day. Guess we were fortunate that it was never more than pea/marble sized. We stopped in Mitchell, SD (gotta see the Corn Palace ya know) and saw a pickup truck with so many huge dimple dents that it looked like the surface of a golf ball. We consider ourselves lucky that we got out of the area without hail damage!
Lucky Mike said
02:18 PM Sep 17, 2013
Its time to go!!!!!........................it went down to 38 degrees last nite and there calling for 28 on wed......the weather is nuts this year!!
I,m sure with the early low dips in temperature the Fall foliage will be intense in New England....I was planning on staying until early November ,but now not so much......BBBbbbbbbrrrrr......
Loretta said
05:35 PM Sep 17, 2013
We are in northern CA right now and until this morning the weather has been great. Nice and warm during the day and dropping a few degrees at night, making for great sleeping weather. Not so this morning......it is COLD. One more week and we are heading south. Are we spoiled or what?????
PIEERE said
10:04 PM Sep 17, 2013
Sorry about everyones damages; but the main plus is none of the family is injured! Rudee; I hope they have the heart under control; as you know i'm a survivor. I survived last Winter here in lebanon; Tn, and am going for another round. They tell me it can get snowy and down right cold here; but this Old Yankee has seen 30+ below zero temps growing up 60 Mile south of Montreal. I lived in an old depression era house; slept up stairs in the attic with icicles formed on the roof nails. I know; was much younger then.
Enjoy your Winters where ever South you go!! PIEERE
NWescapee said
11:21 PM Sep 17, 2013
Loretta - define COLD in northern Cal, please! Heading that way this weekend and will be around the Sacramento and Bay area through the end of October before we can head south. I am just really wanting to get away from rain after years in the Seattle area and then being in Longmont CO last week. I just want some place dry, Utah has been better but we've had 2 thunderstorms in the 3 days we've been here. Just glad they aren't lasting very long.
leno said
12:42 AM Sep 18, 2013
Wow Mike, where are you now with those cool temps? Must be in the mountains.. I think you should head out earlier than planned and stop in NC to visit with all of us at the rally...
Terry and Jo said
12:50 AM Sep 18, 2013
NWescapee wrote:
Loretta - define COLD in northern Cal, please! Heading that way this weekend and will be around the Sacramento and Bay area through the end of October before we can head south. I am just really wanting to get away from rain after years in the Seattle area and then being in Longmont CO last week. I just want some place dry, Utah has been better but we've had 2 thunderstorms in the 3 days we've been here. Just glad they aren't lasting very long.
I remember back in the '60's when I was stationed at a small Army base north of San Francisco and near Petaluma. This poor Oklahoma boy was stunned to see how much rain there was in that area during the winter. Temps weren't cold, but it rained nearly every day.
Terry
Loretta said
01:51 AM Sep 18, 2013
Ruth, 90 during the day and 60 at night. :)
NWescapee said
03:52 AM Sep 18, 2013
Loretta - I can handle that!!
Terry - if you think the Bay Area gets a lot of rain in the winter, try Seattle, a little more rain and generally 10-20 degrees cooler. One more reason we are looking forward to heading south to AZ right after Dale's art show in Half Moon Bay. We are so looking forward to our first winter in AZ:)
bjoyce said
04:26 AM Sep 18, 2013
Western Washington is now back to the normal pattern, cool and somewhat wet. We hit rain as we crossed White Pass (US12) yesterday on our way from Eastern Washington to the West.
In early January we will land for 3 months at Val Vista Village in Mesa, AZ for the second year in a row.
WestWardHo said
03:53 PM Sep 18, 2013
Bill & Ruth,
You're sure right about western Washington weather! -<50 when we got up this morning. From 90 days last week. We're so ready to be out of here!
Thank both for the recommendation for Sluys Bakery in Polsboro! Left a few bucks there but brought Viking Cups home to fellow camp hosts.
Sherry
WestWardHo said
03:54 PM Sep 18, 2013
PS Ruth, Half Moon bay is notorious for being cool and socked in with fog.
Sherry
NWescapee said
09:40 PM Sep 18, 2013
Sherry - we're well aware of the Half Moon Bay weather, but Dale is an artist at the Pumpkin Festival so we hope to be leaving there with a few more dollars in the bank account.
I DO NOT miss that Western WA weather, we're in sunny Utah this week. Lots of wind here today, we've had 2 thunderstorms pass through in the past 3 days but it clears up quickly and with a lake and mountain view from our campsite, LIFE IS GOOD!!!
Ok, this is enough. I've been in the Black Hills of SD since the first of July. I've been in 4 hail storms, none really bad until this evening. Hail the size of golf balls or bigger.
Broke one of my vents and put several holes in slide out covers. Also put several dimples in my truck!
I've really enjoyed the weather here and was woundering if this is normal?
I hope to return next year and workamp for the summer.
Oh we'll I guess I have to take the food with the bad.
will survey the damage in the morning.
Jim
-- Edited by Cowdog353 on Wednesday 4th of September 2013 08:21:22 PM
I'm with ya Jim. I was at work (Crazy Horse) and rode the bike in. I had it covered with the 1/2 cover but I still got some healthy dents in the front fender. The pick up truck parked next to it had dents all over and a broken windshield. We had several cars in our lot that had broken glass and lots of big dents. No obvious damage to the Motor home but will be checking the roof out in the morning. Here is a video I took while it was coming down.
Phil
-- Edited by Workinrvers on Wednesday 4th of September 2013 11:10:18 PM
I'm sure someone else can probably comment on what weather is usually like there from a more long-term perspective, but we were there the end of July-first of August in 2012 for a week, and the weather was wonderful.
My guess is weather can't be predicted from year to year.
We're from Florida and lived through 3 back-to-back hurricanes in 2004. Would I say that's normal - no. It had never happened before in my lifetime and hasn't happened since, but I guess it could happen again as who knows what weather will do. I hope the damage is minimal.
Jim
Jim, Phil & Rudee - hope the damage isn't too severe and you can get the repairs done quickly.
Hoping your damage is minimal and the weather turns for the better , sunny days are coming!!!
Live , Breathe , Relax.........Life is good!!!!! (RVing makes it better!!)
Our truck is beat up pretty bad on every panel plus the windshield is broken, the tauneau cover has dimples and some pin holes. The hail even broke the windshield wipers! Motorhome fared a little better, the outside compartment doors have several dents each, the slide out awnings and window awnings have some small pin holes and tears, the shower skylight is cracked and we lost a couple of the outside light lenses. Luckily our a/c is in the basement as most of our neighbors lost their a/c covers.
Insurance should cover most of the damage but I'm sure getting tired of filing claims. Between the flood this spring, Rudee's cancer in April, then her heart problems last month and now this damage it seems like all we do is talk to insurance companies about one thing or another.
I sure will be glad when this run of bad luck turns around for us but being fulltimers is still better then the alternative.
Phil
to set up a claim center. Sure hope its close!
Yes, I bet y'all are tired of playing with the insurance companies. Get all this bad luck out of the way and will be clear sailing from now on.
Will be a pain to hook up tow and see claims adjuster then set back up again, and won't even be setting up in a new location!
Oh well as you said it sure beats the alternative.
Keep an eye to the sky as clouds are building to the north again.
Jim
It looks like Bill and I made it out of SD just in time. We are parked here at Devils Tower since last night and we had quite a storm here. Just lots of lightning and thunder and rain. Hope all of your stuff is taken care of quickly. We had never seen so many hail storms as we have since we were parked there.
Thanks for the well wishes, y'all be safe.
Jim
Thanks Jim, Devil's Tower is definitely a must-see.
The storm was typical for this area ..... large hail in Custer but nothing just up the road from us so you guys woulod have been OK more than likely.
Glad you guys got away OK though because who knows where the next one is going to hit.
So true. I am hoping that luck will be on our side while we travel West. We just don't want to hit any snow in the mountains.
We are in CA. The pass was not that bad. There was a 7%not listed. Don't stop at Dutch Flat. We are here but will move next week. Sorry you are in such bad weaher. Hope it won't be long before you can leave. Very hot here. Next week it is supposed to cool down.
We were in Mitchell SD the 5th of May, 2012. A hail storm totaled our 6 month old car (4500 miles) and took out everything on our RV roof. Some car dealerships across the road just got deliveries of new cars, several million in losses. Thank goodness for good insurance. DH and I decided to stay out of SD. Thought it would be just in the spring of the year.
After the storm passed I called our insurance company, while talking to the agent another storm came through, she told us to call back later
Sounded like we were in a bomb shelter. Spencer was not afraid of thunder storms before, he runs and hides now if he hears or feels a storm.
Good luck going forward, maybe you have used up all your bad luck for a while!
What is it with hail in that area? We were in Rapid City/Black Hills area for a week in late July and it seemed like we got hail every single day. Guess we were fortunate that it was never more than pea/marble sized. We stopped in Mitchell, SD (gotta see the Corn Palace ya know) and saw a pickup truck with so many huge dimple dents that it looked like the surface of a golf ball. We consider ourselves lucky that we got out of the area without hail damage!
I,m sure with the early low dips in temperature the Fall foliage will be intense in New England....I was planning on staying until early November ,but now not so much......BBBbbbbbbrrrrr......
We are in northern CA right now and until this morning the weather has been great. Nice and warm during the day and dropping a few degrees at night, making for great sleeping weather. Not so this morning......it is COLD. One more week and we are heading south.
Are we spoiled or what?????
Enjoy your Winters where ever South you go!! PIEERE
I remember back in the '60's when I was stationed at a small Army base north of San Francisco and near Petaluma. This poor Oklahoma boy was stunned to see how much rain there was in that area during the winter. Temps weren't cold, but it rained nearly every day.
Terry
Ruth, 90 during the day and 60 at night. :)
Terry - if you think the Bay Area gets a lot of rain in the winter, try Seattle, a little more rain and generally 10-20 degrees cooler. One more reason we are looking forward to heading south to AZ right after Dale's art show in Half Moon Bay. We are so looking forward to our first winter in AZ:)
In early January we will land for 3 months at Val Vista Village in Mesa, AZ for the second year in a row.
You're sure right about western Washington weather! -<50 when we got up this morning. From 90 days last week. We're so ready to be out of here!
Thank both for the recommendation for Sluys Bakery in Polsboro! Left a few bucks there but brought Viking Cups home to fellow camp hosts.
Sherry
Sherry
I DO NOT miss that Western WA weather, we're in sunny Utah this week. Lots of wind here today, we've had 2 thunderstorms pass through in the past 3 days but it clears up quickly and with a lake and mountain view from our campsite, LIFE IS GOOD!!!