Roof Repair & Storm Damage Replacement in Andrews

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and if there’s one thing I can tell you about Andrews, it’s that we’re sitting right in the bullseye of some of the nastiest weather in West Texas. You see, we’re out on that flat, open plateau with nothing but miles of scrubland and oil fields to break the wind. When a spring storm system rolls down from the Panhandle or builds up right over the Pecos, it gets a clear, unimpeded runway to gather speed. That wind doesn’t just blow—it howls, and it’s not uncommon for us to see straight-line gusts of 60 or 70 miles an hour during a bad thunderstorm. That alone is enough to peel back shingles, but the real kicker is how that wind works with the hail. It drives those ice chunks sideways, so instead of just pounding straight down, they’re hammering your roof at an angle, getting under the edges of the shingles and lifting them up like a crowbar.

And the hail itself? It’s not the little pea-sized stuff you see in other places. Our storms have a way of churning up those big, jagged stones—golf ball to baseball size is a real threat every single year, especially from April through June. That’s our prime severe weather season, when the warm, moist air from the Gulf collides with the dry, hot air coming off the mountains, and it creates these supercell monsters right on top of us. I’ve seen roofs that looked fine from the street, but when I got up there, the hail had bruised the shingles so badly that the granules were just gone, leaving the mat exposed to the sun. Once that happens, the wind finishes the job, and you’re looking at leaks within a few months. It’s not a matter of *if* you’ll get hit here, it’s a matter of *when*, and the combination of that relentless wind and those cannonball hailstones is why I tell every homeowner in Andrews to get their roof inspected after every big storm, not just the ones that look scary.