Sarita Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and I can tell you straight up that Sarita sits right in the bullseye for some of the nastiest weather in South Texas. We’re tucked down here in Kenedy County, just a stone’s throw from the Gulf, and that flat, open brush country does us no favors. When those late spring and early summer storms roll in off the bay, there’s nothing to break the wind—no hills, no tree lines, just wide open prairie. So a storm that might just rattle some shingles in Corpus will hit our roofs like a freight train. And it’s not just the wind speed; it’s the way it comes at you in sudden, violent gusts that can peel back a whole section of shingles before you even hear the rain start.

The hail is the real kicker, though. We get these supercell storms that build up fast in the heat of May and June, and they’ll drop hail the size of golf balls or bigger, sometimes for a solid twenty minutes. That’s not just cosmetic damage—that’s impact after impact pounding the granules right off your shingles, bruising the mat underneath, and leaving you with a roof that’s going to leak in a year or two even if it looks okay from the ground. Plus, with the humidity and salt air from being so close to the coast, the asphalt gets brittle faster than it would up north, so it cracks and splits on impact instead of bouncing back. I’ve seen brand new roofs get totaled in a single afternoon storm down here, and it’s not a matter of *if* you’ll deal with it, but *when*. That’s just life in Sarita.