8.05p.m. A beautiful warm day! 3.7 / 5.5kph N, Hg 40%, 24.4C / 75.9F feels like 23.9C / 75F. Heatwave + Marine wind warnings.
Moon is 99% rising golden tonite.
The storms have led to about 40,000 insurance claims, for things like smashed windscreens, body damage and in some cases even complete car write offs.
Esk resident Jon Betts lost several cars after a large storm hit the town he lives in, north of Ipswich, in early November.
Parts of his house were also smashed by the "golf ball-sized" hail that fell for over three minutes in the storm that damaged several homes in the town.
Mr Betts said he was relieved his insurer was easy to deal with and he had been paid out for the damaged cars — but there was one factor he had not considered.
"We were paying [our premium] monthly and were only three months into the [yearly cycle]," he said.
"The insurance takes the extra nine months of premium out of the final figure of your payout. That equated to another $1700 off our total payout.
"[It makes] a big difference to your calculation for replacement vehicles."
Barry and Elaine Platt were driving to their Alexandra Hills home, south of Brisbane, when their car was hit by hail in a recent storm.
"We thought there wasn't a storm around, [we were] wrong," Mr Platt said.
"There was nowhere to go. Like everybody else on the road, we just sat getting hammered.
"It became carnage."
Moon is 99% rising golden tonite.
Tens of thousands of cars damaged after hailstorms lash Queensland and parts of New South Wales
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Thousands of cars have been damaged across south-east Queensland and parts of New South Wales in recent weeks as a result of dangerous hailstorms.The storms have led to about 40,000 insurance claims, for things like smashed windscreens, body damage and in some cases even complete car write offs.
Esk resident Jon Betts lost several cars after a large storm hit the town he lives in, north of Ipswich, in early November.
Parts of his house were also smashed by the "golf ball-sized" hail that fell for over three minutes in the storm that damaged several homes in the town.
Mr Betts said he was relieved his insurer was easy to deal with and he had been paid out for the damaged cars — but there was one factor he had not considered.
"We were paying [our premium] monthly and were only three months into the [yearly cycle]," he said.
"The insurance takes the extra nine months of premium out of the final figure of your payout. That equated to another $1700 off our total payout.
"[It makes] a big difference to your calculation for replacement vehicles."
Barry and Elaine Platt were driving to their Alexandra Hills home, south of Brisbane, when their car was hit by hail in a recent storm.
"We thought there wasn't a storm around, [we were] wrong," Mr Platt said.
"There was nowhere to go. Like everybody else on the road, we just sat getting hammered.
"It became carnage."
