Nixon Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs in Gonzales County for over twenty years, and I can tell you Nixon gets hit harder than folks realize. We sit right in that corridor where Gulf moisture comes rolling up from the southeast and slams into the dry, hot air coming off the Hill Country. That collision is a recipe for supercell thunderstorms, and when they form, they don’t just give us a sprinkle—they drop hail the size of golf balls or bigger, usually right between March and June. The geography doesn’t help, either. We’re surrounded by flat, open farmland, so there’s nothing to break up the wind. A storm can build up speed for fifty miles before it reaches your street, and that straight-line wind—sometimes hitting 70 or 80 miles an hour—will peel shingles right off a roof like they’re nothing.

And it’s not just the spring. We get those sneaky fall storms in October and November, too, when the temperature swings are wild. One day it’s 85, the next it’s 40, and that constant expansion and contraction makes your shingles brittle. So when a hailstone hits, it doesn’t bounce—it cracks the fiberglass mat, and the granules start shedding. Then the wind gets under those loose edges, and before you know it, you’ve got a leak that’s been working on your decking for weeks without you even seeing it. I’ve pulled off roofs in Nixon where the hail damage was invisible from the ground, but up close, every single tab was bruised and split. That’s why I always tell homeowners here: don’t wait for the insurance adjuster to find it. If you’ve had a storm blow through, call me to walk the roof with you. In this town, it’s not a matter of *if* you’ll get hit—it’s a matter of *when*.