Roof Repair & Storm Damage Replacement in Earth

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and if there’s one thing I tell every homeowner in Earth, it’s that we’re sitting right in the bullseye of Texas’s worst spring weather. You see, we’re smack in the middle of the South Plains, which means we get these violent dry-line clashes starting in March and running straight through June. Cold, dry air from the Rockies slams into warm, moist air from the Gulf right over our heads, and that’s the perfect recipe for supercell thunderstorms. Those storms don’t just give us a little rain—they spin up massive, marble-to-baseball-sized hail that comes down sideways with 70-mile-per-hour winds. And because we’re so flat and open, there’s nothing to break up that wind, so it just hammers your shingles like a pressure washer.

What really gets me is how the hail hits us here specifically. We’re at that elevation where the hail has time to grow huge before it falls, and it’s not a quick little pitter-patter—it’s a concentrated barrage that can last ten or fifteen minutes. I’ve pulled up shingles that looked like someone took a shotgun to them, and the wind damage is just as bad because it lifts the edges of your shingles and peels them back like a sardine can. Plus, our storm season doesn’t just end in the spring; we get those sneaky fall storms in October and November that catch folks off guard. So when you see those dark green clouds rolling in from the southwest, that’s not just a passing shower—that’s your roof’s worst nightmare, and it’s why I always tell people to check their gutters for granules after any big blow.