SO, How was everyone's 4th?

[Maengelito]

Lightning struck one of the larger limbs and it split off the side of the tree and landed on the mazda. Crushed the hood, little bit of the roof and 1 or 2 fenders. Already called insurance, need to setup an apt w/ the body shop now.

i hate going through that process. sorry about that unfortunate luck man

Actually, w/ state farm it is pretty painless. You just call them up, they transfer you to a claim 'team'. They take all the info and recommend a body shop. If you use one if their shops all you have to deal with after that point is the body shop. They write up the estimate and take the car right away to start work on it (StateFarm claims come first at most of the shops, the one I'm using put SF claim cars at the front of the line). After the repairs are done you pay the body shop your ins deductable and drive away. I've dealt with this in the past and its usually VERY simple, easy and quick.

I'll get some pics up tonight. We were w/o power all last night, it finally came on this AM at 5.

that sucks chad. just be sure you do use one of their approved shops because its a huge pain in the ass if you dont. i was a moron when i had my subaru worked on and i dont think the panels are straight still to this day. it'll be a huge hassle for me to coordinate something to get it fixed right which i keep saying that i'm gonna do, but havent gotten around to doing