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Offline earl1937

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Re: HAIL
« Reply #30 on: May 11, 2013, 11:59:59 AM »
I will not hail you.

I will however show you the choicest spots to get hit by hail:
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Think east coast.  Appalachia and Missouri (maybe?) will put you right where you need to be.   :aok
:airplane: A DC-9 crashed in New Hope, Georgia, sometime, if I remember right in the late 70's. A captain flew into a "hail shaft" at about 18,000 feet, resulting in loss of power both engines along with handling problems. Crashed landed on old Georgia hwy 92, if I remember correctly, but problem was telephone poles beside highway, right wing hit one, spun a/c into a grocery store parking lot. Can't remember number of dead, but there were many who lived, including the flight crew. Hail is very dangous whether in the air or on the ground!! LOL
Southern Fight 242 (Huntsville-Atlanta) entered severe thunderstorms between FL170 and FL140 over Rome, GA. Both engines failed and couldn't be restarted. An emergency landing was carried out on State Spur Highway 92. The aircraft crashed.
 
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Total and unique loss of thrust from both engines while the aircraft was penetrating an area of severe thunderstorms. The loss of thrust was caused by the ingestion of massive amounts of water and hail which, in combination with thrust lever movement, induced severe stalling in and major damage to the engine compressors.
Major contributing factors include the failure of the company's dispatching system to provide the flight crew with up-to-date severe weather information pertaining to the aircraft's intended route of flight, the captain's reliance on airborne weather radar for penetration of thunderstorm areas, and limitations in the FAA's ATC system which precluded the timely dissemination of real-time hazardous weather information to the flight

This is a copy of NTSB report after investigation.
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Offline SmokinLoon

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Re: HAIL
« Reply #31 on: May 11, 2013, 02:11:56 PM »
Hail is truly a 4 letter word to me.  So is fire.  So is wind.  I'm your friendly neighborhood insurance claims adjuster.   :D   Last summer I did about 130 hail claims, 55 wind claims, and about 30 fire claims (I did around 400 claims total).  Most of them in the eastern half of South Dakota.  About 20 of my claims for hail were in Norfolk, NE.  The company I worked for had over 700 claims for hail thanks to late April hail storm.  Not cool.

The sad thing is most people have no clue what their insurance policy covers or does not cover, and what the difference between "replacement" and "actual cash value".  If you have 20 year old shingles and your roof is totaled thanks to hail or wind damage, and you bought a policy based on price then don't be surprised when your adjuster hands you a check for %20 of the cost to repair your roof. 

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Offline Guppy35

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Re: HAIL
« Reply #32 on: May 11, 2013, 11:34:30 PM »
What the hail?


Sorry.  Had to be said.... :bolt:
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Offline Slade

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Re: HAIL
« Reply #33 on: May 11, 2013, 11:37:10 PM »
If this is not a textbook case for a permanent squelch feature.  :old:
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Offline Reaper90

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Re: HAIL
« Reply #34 on: May 12, 2013, 06:38:33 PM »
Hail the Grayclif

please take your seats..

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Re: HAIL
« Reply #35 on: May 12, 2013, 06:42:35 PM »











































This guy :rofl :rofl :rofl  grayclif :rofl :rofl :rofl
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Offline Grayclif

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Anyone else?
« Reply #36 on: May 13, 2013, 10:07:21 AM »
Anyone else want to tango?

I have suspended appearences in the DA in part because of 2 reasons:

1.) Too many challenges, and a waste of my time as I win every fight there and I get nothing in return.

2.) There have been numerous PM's and BBS posts challenging me, and then I go over to DA and end up furballing for an hour. Again, I get nothing for this. I live in a capitalist nation folks, I expect a sound return on my investment, which in this case, is my time. Time is valuable to me.

Thank you all,

The Grayclif

HAIL

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Offline waystin2

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Re: Anyone else?
« Reply #37 on: May 13, 2013, 10:10:54 AM »


 :rofl  You too funny.   :lol
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Offline morfiend

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Re: Anyone else?
« Reply #38 on: May 13, 2013, 10:13:37 AM »
 :rofl :rofl :rofl

 I needed a good laugh this mourning!  You should put your great skill to work and try training players in the TA!  If you're as good as you say you are I'd gladly step down and offer you my place.


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Offline 5PointOh

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Re: Anyone else?
« Reply #39 on: May 13, 2013, 10:14:32 AM »
I'm thinking your parents didn't hug you enough or you have LMD.
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Offline SEseph

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Re: Anyone else?
« Reply #40 on: May 13, 2013, 10:16:35 AM »
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Re: Anyone else?
« Reply #42 on: May 13, 2013, 03:00:13 PM »
Sure, I'm game.  I'll give you first pick of the planes and then it's winner's pick afterwards.  Best out of 5 and the loser pays the winner a month of AH.  Deal?

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Offline Debrody

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Re: Anyone else?
« Reply #43 on: May 13, 2013, 03:10:11 PM »
Im the U.S. President. Nope, im God himself, the master of the universe. Even more, im Elvis Presley. Now come kiss my hand, angel  :lol
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Btw, this thread is full of WINs, except one (H)FAIL. Both are epic  :aok
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Re: Anyone else?
« Reply #44 on: May 13, 2013, 03:34:42 PM »
Silence tells me secretly everything.
                                                                     
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