New London Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing these East Texas communities for over twenty years, and I can tell you New London gets hit from a perfect storm of bad luck, geographically speaking. We sit right in that corridor where warm, moist Gulf air slams into cooler continental fronts, and that collision is a hail machine. It’s not just the size of the stones either—it’s the wind that drives them. We get those straight-line gusts that can hit sixty or seventy miles an hour, and they don’t blow *over* the roof, they blow *into* it, lifting shingles from the edges and letting the next round of hail get underneath. That’s how you end up with granule loss you can see in the gutters and soft spots you can feel with your hand.

And the timing couldn’t be worse for your roof’s health. Our big severe weather season runs from March through May, but we also get a nasty secondary spike in the fall, right around October. That means your roof is taking a beating right when it’s either just coming out of winter’s thermal expansion or heading into it. The constant baking in our Texas sun makes the asphalt brittle, so when a spring supercell rolls in off the plains with marble-sized hail, those impacts don’t bounce—they shatter the matting. I’ve seen brand new architectural shingles look like someone took a shotgun to them after a twenty-minute storm. It’s not a matter of *if* you’ll need to file a claim, it’s a matter of *which* storm finally does the trick.