Pattison Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Pattison gets hammered in a way folks from Houston just don’t understand. We sit right in that sweet spot between the Gulf and the Hill Country, so when those spring squall lines roll in off the coast, they haven’t lost any steam yet. The storms build up in the afternoon heat, and by the time they hit our side of the county, they’re packing straight-line winds that’ll peel shingles like a banana. And it’s not just the wind—it’s the hail. We get those big, jagged chunks, sometimes the size of golf balls or bigger, that come down at an angle because of the gusts. That combination is the worst for a roof, because the wind lifts the edges of your shingles, and then the hail slams into that exposed underlayer, cracking the mat and knocking the granules clean off.

What makes it even trickier is our geography. We’ve got all that open farmland and low brush around here, so there’s nothing to break up the wind’s momentum. A storm that might just rattle windows in a neighborhood with tall oaks will hit a house out here like a freight train. And the season isn’t just one month—it stretches from March all the way through June, with a second nasty round in the fall when those cold fronts clash with the leftover summer heat. I’ve seen roofs that were perfectly fine in July get completely shredded by a single twenty-minute storm in April. That’s why I always tell folks, if you’re in Pattison, don’t wait for the insurance adjuster to call you—you check your roof after every big blow, because this area doesn’t give you a warning. It just takes what it wants.