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Originally Posted by erick
Inspected the damage after the storm abated.....
I inspected more closely later - no tile damage and the three skylights were undamaged. However my daughter called me later to report water dripping through lounge room ceiling. Not sure how that happened. I've asked her to monitor it through the next few days rain and report. 
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Yep, you guessed right. I didn't check the tiles closely enough. It was wet and slippery and I was more interested in the skylights at the time. Based on what I saw on another roof, I was looking for tiles significantly displaced. Mine had just cracked through in place - lengthwise and across.
This morning in Bacchus Marsh we had the heaviest downpour around 5am. Checked the radar and saw it was heavy across Melbourne. Checked with the children and the lounge room ceiling was looking decidely unhappy. Packed tools and ladders and headed across at first light.
Found 10 broken tiles on the side of the house facing the storm front on Saturday. Several stains in ceilings and lounge room ceiling so bad Immediately poked a hole to relieve the water pressure.
Had a good stock of spare tiles so I replaced them. Annoyingly one was right under the ridge pointing so I had to dislodge that. Have poked it back in and we'll see what happens. Won't be thrilled if I have to repoint!
Since I examined every tile closely, I spotted another small break on the other side of the house where a water spot used to occasionally appear. Never have looked closely enough before.
Went down to Binnings and fought with others for the last sheets of polycarbonate sheeting - only the expensive stuff left
. Replaced the broken sheet in the garage roof.
So I have a corner of the lounge room ceiling to replace and a pergola roof.
That must have been a fair impact by those ice missiles. I have walked on these tiles for years and my 95+kg weight has only ever cracked one.
Still I got off easy! Insurance claims tipped to top $200m. Many small car dealers uninsured for hail are going to lose big time. Tile roofs reported to look like "cheesegraters". Many people evacuated from houses with collapsed ceilings. Docklands Stadium and Southern Cross Train Station are facing huge repair bills.
ouch sorry to hear about the cars and you too Dave 
lol Ron who knows what the rice growers will do 
and how's the size of them hail stones!!! 
