Moreland Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs in this part of Coweta County for over fifteen years, and I can tell you that Moreland gets hit with a perfect storm of conditions that just beat the tar out of shingles. We sit right in that corridor where warm, moist air from the Gulf slides up and collides with cooler air coming down from the mountains. That clash is what brews those violent, pop-up supercells in the late afternoon, especially from March through May and again in the fall. The hail we get isn’t that tiny pea stuff you see up north—it’s often golf-ball sized or bigger, and because the storms move so fast, the wind whips those ice chunks sideways instead of dropping them straight down. That angled impact tears the granules right off the asphalt and leaves those little black bruises that you can’t see from the ground, but they’re there, just waiting to leak in a year or two.

What really makes it worse is our geography. We’re not in the mountains, but we’ve got enough rolling hills and tree lines that the wind gets funneled and twisted as it comes through. A straight-line gust of 60 miles an hour here will hit your ridge line at an odd angle, lifting the edge of a shingle and then slamming it back down—that’s what causes those creased, cracked tabs that look fine until a hard rain finds them. And since our storm season runs so long, from those spring squall lines to the remnants of hurricanes that push through in September, your roof takes a beating multiple times a year. It’s not a matter of *if* you’ll get damage, it’s a matter of how many times you’ll have to call me out to patch it before you finally just say, “Let’s do the whole thing.” I’ve seen 10-year-old roofs in Moreland look like they’re 20, just because of what these skies throw at us.