Today, I noticed significant hail damage to the blinds. Is this something you would report to the landlord?

Hey Phil!

Was this from last weekend's storm? If yes the answer is yes, he should be informed and if the Kanton have deemed it an act of god emergency he can claim the building damage from the Kanton insurance.

It's funny Pappa Goose and I were talking just this weekend about the last hail damage as our claims dept have been over run yet know one seems to know in person anyone who was affected, guess now we do! Sorry to hear about it and hope no personal items suffered, I got trashed last year to a large degree repairs still on going!

@Saint7UK: Maybe you might know the answer to this related question.

It seemed odd to me at the time but during a phone conversation with my Landlord a while ago, they said we should leave the window blinds open during hailstorms. Is this correct?

I can't see any logical reason why that would be so other than it being possibly more costly in some cases to replace damaged blinds than windows, perhaps?

yeah. i wondered if i would get the blame for not having the blinds up...

Errrrrgh! Tricky one.... There is a school of thought that if you do then the modern glass is more resilient to such vast ice ball attack, having been in it last year in severity the jury for me is out I' m afraid. It does make sense as the storen is light Ali but...

Also sometimes these "attacks" are super quick or in an evening where one would be unable or have the balls to open all shutters. I happened to be in in last year during a raid and there was no way I could run 'round the house opening things. We lost 11 to damage on 1.5 sides of the house!

I can send you the vid I bravely took whilst cowering in the house for the minute or so the world looked like it was going to end, lol but seriously, the chance of me pressing the switches to see what was going on better or saving the shutters ( which by now were already trashed) was errrr... None

I should add... There is no scientific reason for leaving them open "unlike equalising pressure in a tornado" it will purely be damaged related, hoping the glass won't smash. However in a town last year there were more claims for broken glass and car windshields than shutter damage.... Some had both smashed shutters and glass behind!

No Mr McR,

You won't they can't... It's Kanton covered and you might have been out....

I do believe I was that day, whatever day that was...

The thing is some of those hailstones were massive and I wouldn't want one or more of those flying through a window at bullet speed especially if I'm in it's home zone!

As an aside, I was at a friend's place the day after last week's storm. Whilst we were talking about it, her daughter reached into the freezer ice compartment and brought over what I at first thought were some funky, mis-shapen ice cubes and said I didn't think ice worked terribly well with Chardonnay.

Turns out they were hailstones she'd collected and kept as souvenirs.

Hahahaha! Well I guess it's slightly better than a black fly in your chard, now that would be ironic!

I know it was I saw you sporting your kilt up the viadukt!

Wow. I had no idea there were such vigorous storms in CH. Would love to see the vid. Are the storms usually found within certain months?

Do the cars also experience some damage at times from hail?

Hope things are resuming their repaired state and all is well again.

Wow! Sorry to hear about your dreadful experience last year. It sounds really frightening! Good on you for not dropping the recorder whilst videoing it, though. Talking of which, did you YouTube it?

Thanks for your comments and advice. I totally forgot what my Landlord had said about keeping the shutters open after seeing the size of the hailstones last week and just instinctively closed them. Would probably have dived under the bed if there was room.

Oh boy yes! Not like tornado ally or such but they do reck some stuff! ( on a kinda mild maner compared to some countries ) the storm usually occur between June and August of this type depending on pressure fronts etc.

Yes cars take a pounding, our company with its hail damage points are backed up as of last week and we are quick with assessing and repairing! Which just reminded me, thanks i need to add something I forgot to another post about such...l back in a tic...