The past 24 hours have been a real rollercoaster. You all know that I've got my T by now, but today nearly brought me to tears.

For those who saw the news tonight, Western Sydney had a nasty little hail storm at around 2pm. Lasted about 20-25 mins and in some places the hail was golf ball size.

Yours truly had driven his new baby up to Kellyville for an afternoon of playing cricket. I had check the BoM website for a weather check and didn't see any hail warnings, just a "chance of thunderstorms tonight". So there I was opening the batting and feeling good... then down drops the first tiny hail stone! I freaked!

Instantly I was having flashbacks to Easter 1999 and the devasting hail storm that flattened everything all over Eastern Sydney. This included my '94 EF Falcon that was parked on the street and got pummelled to the tune of $8.5k.

Back to today. With no undercover parking anywhere nearby, all I could do was sit in the clubhouse and pray that my new baby could survive the storm. For the next half hour I was going insane. I hadn't had her for more than 23 hours and already Mother Nature was out to get me! :tears:

Luckily for this little black duck, the hail stones were not big enough or hard enough to do any damage. My "black beauty" has a tough exterior, something I'm extremely thankful for. But for ~30 mins I was a broken man.

definitly dodged some bullets old mate! especially what was on the news!!

I'm not sure that horror stories like this should be allowed on the forum?

My spincter was clenched closed the whole time I was reading your post LC.

You're a lucky man, my friend ...

Ahuh. I really thought she was gonna be wrecked. Thank god she's a tough one.

Ahuh. I really thought she was gonna be wrecked. Thank god she's a tough one.

Why the hell are you online?

I'm just about to head out for a run ... so should you.

Get out there man ... no hail, that I can see ... you're clear ... go for it!

Hey you should buy one of those portable carports with 4 poles and a tarp. I have seen em before and they shouldn't be too pricey, might be worth buyin one and keeping it in the boot.

True, might get some laughs, but who'll be laughing when it hails right?

I'd be laughin at the poor ba$tards who cant afford such a beasty car! lol And the ones who fork out thousands for hail damage repairs!

I feel for you mate, I was in a similar situation in Canberra but the hailstones weren't as big, but the tree branches and other crap flying around was quite worrying. All's well that ends well though.

Lord C , A very lucky escape indeed. Only a few minutes away in Rouse Hill and Riverstone cars were being trashed by said golf ball sized hail stones. I am very happy that you and your new bubs survived natures onslought.

I too only just made it to safety in time.