Transatlanticism

Its been 3 days since the super massive hailstorm hit us here in Perth. I’m still alive and kicking and in one piece. The city is back to normal except for the fallen leaves and branches.

It was a pretty epic day for me, this isn’t my first time experiencing hail, but its definitely my first time experiencing hail the size of golf balls. Hur hur.

It was pretty hot in the early afternoon but at around 4pm it started raining. I was in the midst of cooking my lunch and I heard some weird noises, like rocks being pelted on our tin roof, so I went out to check. And it was hailing! The hail was pretty light initially, so we whipped out our cameras and started taking pictures. But after a while, the hail showed no signs of stopping. The hail stones got bigger instead, and I was like fuck! My car is parked outside, not in the carport. I risked getting my head busted by the hail and ran out to shift my car into the carport.

As our roof was made of tin, the sound of the hail hitting our roof was deafening. We had to shout to each other in order to communicate. It continued hailing for another 15 minutes or so, I got a bit bored and went back to my room. And guess what? My window was totally shattered by the hail, even my insect net was busted. A couple of pieces of hail was lying in my room. The hail even came down from the fire place in my room.

I didn’t really give a shit about it initially as the hail had already subsided, so I went out of the house with my housemates to camwhore in the hail. The scene outside our house was scary, the entire road was covered with fallen leaves and branches, the entire place looked like a scene straight from a disaster movie. Pretty epic shit. We went over to check out our friend’s place next door. They lost a window too. But reality set in when they told me that there might be a second wave coming. Oh noes, my windows are busted, my room will be a goner if I don’t do something about the windows.

The FML part of the day kicked in. I spent a good hour sweeping and vacuuming the pieces of glasses, cutting my leg in the process. After I finished vacuuming the fireplace, I turned the vacuum cleaner off and some black gooey liquid flowed out of the vacuum cleaner. Urgh.

After I finished cleaning up the gooey stuff, I sat on the plastic box to take a break, but I ended up breaking the lid instead.

The following day, I drove to the car workshop with Brenda to get her windscreen fixed. Her poor CRV’s windscreen cracked. The entire left rear window and her rear lights was totally broken and her entire car was covered so badly with dents, it looked like a golf ball. On the way to the workshop, everyone was laughing and commenting on her car. And we travelled at 60km/h on the 100km/h freeway. I was checking my rear mirror every 10 seconds or so to make sure that her windscreen didn’t shatter while driving. Lol.

When we got to the workshop, her cousin/the mechanic was stunned by the amount of damage her car took and said immediately, “Your car is a write off.” I was pretty shocked by the news, I didn’t expect it to be a write off. Even I felt the heartache, can’t imagine how she would feel. Prime’s brand new Lancer is probably a write off too as his car was as badly damaged as Brenda’s.

But looking back now, I secretly wished that my car was damaged and written off too. Because if its written off, I’ll get $8000 back, the same amount that I paid for my car and I can use it to buy a new car. If I sell my car now, I would probably fetch around $4000-$5000.