RV DESTROYED by FREAK STORM!😱 My Full-Time Nomad Home is RUINED! What am I going to do now?!?

my Airstream which is my full-time home was basically destroyed and I don't know what I'm going to [Music] do hey everybody it's Robin with creativity RV so right now I am in my fifth wheel if you've been watching my channel you know that I took my fifth wheel out of storage to do some maintenance on it and my Airstream is outside the window right there um I am in V park next to my friend Debbie and two nights ago at about 9:00 I was sitting here watching TV the weather seemed fine there was no rain or anything and then all of a sudden something huge and Loud struck the side of my RV it sounded like a baseball and about 5 seconds later there was another one and I jumped up texted Debbie oh and she said is that hail and just then the sky opened up and there was pingpong size hail according to the weather report and 60 mph winds and all we could do was sit inside and listen to it destroy our RVs oh my god oh holy cow what the hell this is not good oh my God oh my God oh no my Airstream no no no no no no no oh no no no it looks like baseballs oh my God holy cow oh my God oh my God [Applause] if you've been inside of an RV during a rainstorm you know that can be really loud but a hail storm with that size hail is kind of scary the weather alerts were saying to seek shelter in a basement or an interior room so all we could do was like stand in the center of our RVs and I tried to look outside there was lots of lightning it was dark um to see if there was any damage to the air Stam but I couldn't see until the next morning and airstreams are aluminum and of course there was but I wasn't the only one in here I am in an RV park as you can see and pretty much everybody in here um has a ton of damage um Debbie had a bunch of damage but the next day everybody was outside people had damage on their cars their skylights were shattered and their vents were broken just really a hail damage that hail storm was the scariest storm I've ever been in except for a bomb Cyclone that I wrote out in my class C um also in another part of Colorado um where my RV was actually picked up and moved about 3 feet um and I was thrown off a couch onto the ground during that storm so that one was really scarier um this one was scary more because of the damage my parents Hood has hail damage the fifth wheel has hail damage and the Airstream has a ton of hail damage fast forward two weeks and the poop has really hit the fan I wish I could tell you that things have gotten better but it's the Murphy's Law of RV life now the fifth wheel I'm in is almost unlivable I thought that I was lucky that I had a place to stay while I figured out what to do with the airing stream um that might not be the case so if you haven't subscribed already please do and hit the little bell for notifications because next week I'm going to give you the update on that but for now let me tell you what has happened with the Airstream my insurance company assessed the damage on the Airstream and sent me a preliminary check now you might know that I worked in insurance for a long time so if you're not familiar let me tell you how this works when you have Collision or comprehensive on your insurance policy hail is covered under comprehensive um before you get it repaired they will do a starter estimate which is always super low ball like half what it normally is to repair something um to get you started on the repairs and then when you take it into a repair shop the repair shop will build the insurance company directly for the difference in what's called a supplemental check so I was expecting that my preliminary check was going to be low and it was um the bigger problem is that I can't find a place to even fix the Airstream nobody that I can find in Colorado will tackle it um there is one dealership that will but right now they're not returning my phone calls I've sent them the damage and followed up a couple of times but I think they're just really slammed from all the hail damage here's the problem with airstreams they're aluminum so they get a lot of damage and when that damage has to be repaired they have to take out thousands of rivets on the inside and the outside and then order those curved pieces which can take months to get so here are my options I can take the check and keep it as is and run um I can wait and have it repaired but it looks like I'd have to go across the country to the mother ship to have that done um to the Airstream Factory and the earliest it looks like I could get in now is October or November um or I can sell it uh and keep the check and hope that that makes up for the difference and I have some stuff in mind I'll let you guys know when I decide what to do my friend Debbie unfortunately had her RV her home totaled out by her insurance company now that works differently from state to state usually you have to get a salvage title um and then you can't have physical damage coverage on it again but some states will allow you to have a clean title after a claim like that you just can't CL CLA hail damage again so another good reason to look at your residence date and poor Debbie I don't know if you saw the interview that we did a few weeks ago because she's an RV inspector she came here to visit me just to do that interview and the next day is when that damage happened you know that's her house and she's got some decisions to make as well and it just sucks but this is part of RV life and I'm just rolling with it you guys I will let you know what I'm doing as soon as I know but first of all I have to figure out what I'm doing in this fifth wheel it's almost unlivable um so watch next week and I'll give you the update on what's happening with that I hope you all are doing well out there and had a nice holiday I'll see you next week with that all new video Until then everybody out there have happy travels and be free [Music] [Music]

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Length: 9min 29sec (569 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 07 2024