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Heres some pictures of the storm damage in my neighborhood in Big Lake. We got hit pretty hard. luckly my house only got a little damage on the siding from hail. my neighbors tree blew down into my backyard, and there is about 4 large oakes uprooted and a few landed on houses.

sorry there kinda blurry I had to use the cheesy night vision on my camera to get desent pics.

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Wow thats pretty intense

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wow.
Hope thats all there is to the damage. hope none of you guys got hurt.
It ddidn't go through the house did it?

my area :mad:

a big tree got cut in half and fell down on our shack.
our little home built play ground busted down.

Across the street, i think our neighbors house is messed up. The firetruck is there. I was watching them, i think they are pulling a tree. The street has tons of twigs. I had to pull a huge branch off the street so cars could drive safely.

It is pretty pitch black here, i hope nothing else went wrong.

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I just about drove through a 2ft deep puddle. Just before that happened a car spun out in front of me on hwy100. Driving in rain sucks.

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I just got back from Fridley. They had straightline winds that uprooted trees. The tree that was standing in front of my car in the Anoka County Library parking lot fell straight away from my car. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Tried to take pics with my camera but didn't turn out.

We were hold up in the library until the storms passed. Then jumped on the ham radios to find out what the extent of the damage was. The intersections on University ave north of 694 had standing water in them. The power is completely out up there. It almost looked like a war zone.

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thats a damn big tree to fall on yer house!!

hope all is well in biglake!!

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Crazy pics. Stupid MN and it's crappy sand for soil. Two of my half grown everygreens are at a slant now. You wouldn't see that crap in ND. lol. Also, my moveable basketball hoop blew over backward (the hard way).

I drove up 169 about 7:30pm, starting at 694, and only one stop light worked (not even the blinking red light) all the way to Ramsey. The worse part is when you get vertigo from the rain and cars in front of you and you think your car is moving when it's not.

I hope everyone is Ok.

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Wow the tree took a hit but the Weber grill is still hanging out. (#2 pic)

My power was off for a long time and we got lots of hail, the DSM was in side all safe, but the Saturn was out side in Brooklyn park with the back windows down…oh well.

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how bad is it? if you guys got hit by hail pretty good then my company will probably be opening an office up there. In which case I'll be coming home!

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Majority of the damage here was from hail. 2 sides of the garage look like someone was using it for sling shot target practice. Lost 2 12' Pines. I didnt have both hood pins in the hood of the rally car so the hood is kinda bent to crap.

Biggest damage I could see in the dark last night was next door neighbors privacy fence is about 1/3 gone.

Will post pictures after the light comes back.

Dan

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Holy Sheet.

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Whoa...didnt know it did that much damage.

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I couldn't get a pic 'cause it was to dark but all the water found the low piont in the neigborhood wich happend to be in front of eight houses about knee deep.

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Eagan didn't get hit to bad, so I didn't expect much more any where else. Thats sucks really bad, hope everyone is ok!

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Yeah, we are without power in Fridley since 7 last night. They are talking it may be 2 days before we have power back. The fence on the south side of my house is down, we lost a tree next to the driveway (at a 45* angle above the silver car!! ) and about 40% of the trees on our road are down. Lots of big ones, but luckily the one in front of my house survived. I can't believe that my bike stayed upright!

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Looks like I didn't make out as a good as I thought. I was on my way to work when I noticed the biggest tree in my neighboors yard fell over. Then looked at my back yard and saw this. d'oh! The biggest tree in my yard blew over too! Oh well, I guess that means lots of firewood for bonfires. Time for some chain saw action.

http://christopher.implex.net/pics/0...rm/Image17.jpg

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That is wild. But the really crazy part is that, I live in Bloomington, and we didn't get one drop of rain. The wind picked up a bit, but nothing too bad. But when I looked north, it looked like the devil himself was stirring the pot. The sky was a redish color, the clouds were swirling, and there was a shit ton of lightning. But I was dry as a bone, with just enough breeze to keep the mosquitos away. Wierd.

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Chris, what does Matt's house look like? Any trees blown down? Flooding was insane in Coon rapids. I saw a car with water up to its roof on University and 10, I would have drove into it if I didn't see the dome light just above the water. It hailed three separate times up to golf ball sized at one point. None of Melissa's trees went down but there were plenty scattered through out the neiborhood.

Chris this wouldn't have happened in ND because they don't even have any trees in that state, its so flat and boring! :D

Jim

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It was nuts. I was on 694 going west and as soon as i crossed the 94 exit i could hardly see. I tried driving for a little bit to get to the closest exit and turn around to go home but i decided to pull over for bit when i could hardly see the semi 10 feet in front of me. I turned on the radio when i got home about 1/2 hour later and a guy called talking about a semi laying on its side right where i was pulled over, im glad i left when i did.

Junaid

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I didn't notice anything major at Matt's house. But I didn't look too close either.

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Thats nuts. Thank god in wayzata all i had to do is take a couple leaves off my car :) I hope the damage isnt to bad where you guys live though that sucks

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about 5 homes down from me there was a twister, about 9 homes got wiped/destroyed in a path and whole bunch of trees got pulled from the roots and moved about 20 yards and droped down.

I will take some pictures. One of my friends, his house is destroyed, his wife and mother are in the hospital, i was runing around puling cars out of the way of ambulances, the cars were stalled. whole bunch of people got taken away to the hospital from my neighborhood.

it was a hell ofa night.

-e

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well i had my eclipse in my friends driveway befor the storm had come. Then were like well lets go get something to eat for a lil bit and rent a movie... sure enough the storm starts when we leave really bad... and we sit at arbys waiting for it to clam down... but we head back to my friends house sure enough to find the hugest tree on the ground RIGHT where my car was.... omg thank goodness i went and got something to eat :) well thats my story :)

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Big E, I was over in your area looking at homes with a Realtor and we had to split once the storm hit. It told Melissa "this has got to be close to what a tornado feels like" didn't know there actually was a tornado a couple blocks away. :o

Jim

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I took some "before the storm" pics just for shits and giggles.

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Wow, It only looked bad in Eagan but we didn't get anything.

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GV and south got nothing bad, a tiny bit of hail right around bed time, but nothing really more than that

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And a little before the storm video:


Right click, Save as. Quicktime Format.
http://www.dsmstyle.com/misc/video/PICT0048.MOV

Yes is was taken with the new camera.

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Damage was a little beyond what I thought. Both the WRX and the Rally car got blasted by hail. Too bad I cant have the insurance co. do anything about that. The truck has a couple of spots on it but nothing major. Its a truck right, just adds character.

Pics of left over hail were taken aprox. 15 min after it stopped. I went out after the rain had died down a bit. So I assume that the hail was larger than this when it hit.

http://www.sidewaysmotorsports.com/gallery/storm92105

Dan

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If any of you guys need roofs let me know. All it takes is 11 hits of hail per shingle and the insurance company has to replace the roof.

How big was the hail? looks like the storm was pretty bad.

They turned our Rental Apartments into actual Town House community so after Febuary when our lease is up we have to move out and find someplace else to live.

In which time if they open an office back up in MN (Aztec Roofing) we'll probably move back there. Since the deductables are anywhere from $500-$1000 for hail storms vs 2-10% of the total value of the house like it is here for the hurricanes.

And $500 we can swing Signing bonus's so it doesn't cost the home owners any money. We just sign em up and then talk to there insurance company's and they get a new roof for free. (unless they want to upgrade)

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Dan, where are you at in Ramsey? I didn't think it hailed like that here. I may have to go check out the roof and look closer at the walls. My house is stuco so I didn't notice any immediate damage.

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I live on the 153rd Block of Okapi ST. Last street going west on Alpine Dr. Before you get to Northfork (golf course).

Three close neighbors lost HUGE weeping willows (too much surface area i would guess), windows in their houses and even a 6 month old big trailor/camper.

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how can you recognize how many hits it had per shingle.... ??? if you look on the underside?

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Yeah that storm sucked. There wasn't power at our house this morning at 11am so I just said fuck it and went down to Treasure Island Casino where I work and got a hotel room and chilled there until I had to work. I am not sure if the power is working up there now or not, since JET and Nash didn't answer there phones when I called from down here. Does anybody know if the power is back on in Fridley?

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From what's been on the news I thought Fridley was still without in some places and could be through the weekend. If there are down power lines and trees that need to be cut up then the cities have said some places coudl be without power for 3-5 more days.

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Crazy. I guess I'll be looking closer at the house since I'm in walking distance of there (Marmoset and 155Ln). I'll have to stop by and say hi sometime.

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I just talked to Andy and he said the power was on at our house so thats cool. I just needed to know if I should stay in my hotel room for a little longer.

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Matt's house took a lot of damage to the siding. None of his trees blew over though.

Jim

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Damn that sucks! Especially when you're trying to sell. My exterior looked fine. The stucco held up (and/or hides the damange) nicely. I did notice some of the aluminum around one of the windows was beat up. I don't know if it was there before or not but it looked like hail damage.