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Granity · 29-06-2012, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Muddymike[_2_]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 06:09:51 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2012-06-28 23:28:20 +0100, Pam Moore
said:

On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:20:03 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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Just been reading about more heavy rain and flash floods:

BBC News - Flash flooding: Man found dead as downpours cause chaos

Hope everyone is OK, and your gardens too.

I was out in my car today when hailstorms started, first marble sized
but
then golfballs and torrential rain started. I pulled into the side of
the
road. I felt sure my windscreen or the other windows would be
shattered
as
they hit the car at huge force and some of the hailstones that my
neighbour
captured on his phone camera are 3 inches across.
Lots of flooding, I expect most things in my allotment will have been
wiped
out.

My car is dented on the bonnet and roof.
BBC News - Leicestershire hit by strong winds, rain and hailstorms

They mentioned those hailstones on the weather forecast. I thought he
was joking! Nasty.

Pam in Bristol

It sounds truly horrible. We actually had sun here today for much of
the
day, then threatening grey cloud, then sun again. We went out to supper
tonight and driving home could see quite a misty covering to Dartmoor.
--

I have never experienced any hailstones like those. I got away with the
glass (phew) but my car has been dented. Insurance don't want to cover
it.
They say it was an Act of God and they cannot be responsible for that.
I say if I pay my insurance money, they should pay up.
What do you think?

I say read the exclusion clauses in your policy very carefully.

Our Forester was covered when damaged by a branch that fell from a tree in
high wind. Is that not also an act of god?

Mike

Apparently it was all the fault of the Spanish, they decided to send a parcel of hot air up to us just at the same time as the Icelanders were sending down a blast of cool air to us from the Arctic. :-)