Point Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs up here for over twenty years, and if there’s one thing I can tell you about Point, it’s that we’re sitting right in the bullseye for springtime trouble. You see the way the land lays flat all the way to the horizon? That’s the problem. When those cold fronts come screaming down from the north and slam into the warm, wet air rolling up from the Gulf, there’s nothing—no hills, no tree lines, nothing—to break up that collision. The storms just spin up right on top of us, and they’ve got a clear runway to build into supercells. By the time they hit the east side of town, they’re dropping hail the size of golf balls, sometimes bigger, and the wind is coming in straight-line gusts that’ll peel shingles off like they’re stickers.

And it’s not just one bad day in April. We get a second nasty window in late May and early June, and then again in the fall when the humidity comes back. The hail here isn’t that soft, pea-sized stuff you see in Dallas—it’s dense, icy chunks that hit at an angle because of the wind, which means they dig under the edges of your shingles and bruise the matting underneath. You might not even see the damage from the ground, but I’ll tell you, after a good storm, I can walk a roof and find granule loss that looks like someone took a sander to it. That’s what gets you—it’s not the one big hit, it’s the repeated pounding every couple of years that weakens the whole system until one good blow just takes it all off.