Nunez Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs in this part of Georgia for over twenty years, and I can tell you Nunez gets hit harder than folks realize. We sit right in that corridor where warm, muggy air from the Gulf bumps into cooler fronts rolling down from the Appalachians. That clash doesn’t just give us a pretty sunset—it stacks up those towering thunderheads that love to drop marble-sized hail right on our ridge lines. And because we’re mostly open farmland and low hills, there’s nothing to break up the wind. A straight-line gust can come screaming across those peanut fields at sixty, seventy miles an hour, and it hits your roof flat and square, lifting shingles like a deck of cards before the hail even gets a chance to pockmark them.

The real kicker is the timing. Our worst storms aren’t in the dead of summer—they sneak up in late March through May, and then again in October and November, right when you’re not thinking about it. Those spring storms roll in fast, usually late afternoon, and they’ll drop a quick inch of hail in fifteen minutes. The older asphalt shingles up here, especially the ones past ten years, they get brittle from all that Georgia heat, and a cold hailstone hitting a hot, brittle shingle is like throwing a rock at a cracker. Plus, the wind direction matters—we get a lot of southwest blows that funnel right down the Ohoopee River valley, and that’s the angle that catches the eaves and tears off the drip edge. I’ve seen brand new roofs in Vidalia get shredded, so imagine what a twenty-year-old roof in Nunez is facing every single spring.