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Fundraising For Your Organization With Auto Hail Repair
Jessica Black • February 13, 2025
Your fundraiser is a no brainer when your supporters get their vehicle's hail damage repaired with our program.
HOW IT WORKS:
- Your supporters contact You've Been Through Hail directly and notify us of their participation in your program.
- You've Been Through Hail schedules your supporter for an appointment to evaluate their vehicle hail damage, and documents their association with your organization.
- Supporter has their vehicle evaluated at our selected shop under high spectrum lighting for 150+ photos and detailed estimate.
- You've Been Through Hail will submit all detailed photos of damage and estimate directly to insurance. Unlike insurance partnered shops, we advocate on your supporter's behalf since we aren't required to repair by a contracted amount. We repair the damage the BEST way, not the most ECONOMICAL way.
- After insurance approval, You've Been Through Hail will begin repairs. Thereafter, we complete the claim with $0 out of pocket for your supporters for deductibles $1,000 or less.
- You've Been Through Hail donates $200 after insurance payment is received to your foundation/program for EACH repaired vehicle from your supporters. We will have a dedicated page for each organization so that you may track every vehicle, and earned donation from your supporters. Please contact us to get set up or for more information before the storm.
You've Been Through Hail & Need The 411
When a thunderstorm has an updraft of water droplets, they can be lifted into freezing air temperatures, especially with stronger winds. Once this point is reached, the droplets freeze on contact and become pellets. These pellets will circulate within the cloud and continue to collect more cold-water droplets causing the ice pellets to grow larger. They will continue to go through this cycle until they become too heavy for the updraft to hold them, and then fall to the ground as hail stones. The strength of the updraft will determine the number of times the pellet cycles which will control the final size of the hailstone. When you are able to see hail falling in paths, it is known as a hail swath. There have been swaths know to be several acres up to over 100 miles long. Here are some cool hail facts: If it hails during a rain storm, it can cause the sky to turn green since hailstones reflect the entire spectrum of sunlight. \ It’s hard to measure how fast hail falls from the cloud. National Severe Storms Laboratory says a 2 ¾ inch baseball-sized hailstone can get up to 100mph. Hail typically falls in 5-10 minutes because of its fast movement and short bursts of energy. Sometimes it can last 30 minutes to 1 hour. If you break open a hailstone, you can usually see the layers to show how many times the pellet circulated before getting heavy and falling.
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