Roof Repair & Storm Damage Replacement in Olney

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and I can tell you that Olney sits right in a bullseye for some of the nastiest weather in North Texas. We’re out here on the open prairie, with nothing but miles of flat farmland between us and the Red River. When those spring supercells roll down from the Panhandle, they don’t have a single hill or tree line to break them up. The wind just screams across the fields, and it gets funneled right over our rooftops. That’s why we see straight-line winds of 70 or 80 miles an hour that will peel shingles right off a ridge like they’re nothing, and those gusts always seem to hit hardest right when the hail starts falling.

And the hail itself is a whole other animal. We’re in the heart of "Hail Alley," and our storm season isn’t just one month—it’s a gauntlet from March through June, with a second nasty round in October. The hail we get isn’t that little pea-sized stuff; it’s usually golf ball to baseball size, and it comes down at an angle because of that relentless wind. That combination is the worst thing for a roof. The wind lifts the edges of your shingles, and the hail slams into them from the side, bruising the mat and knocking the granules off. Once that happens, the sun bakes the exposed fiberglass, and you’re looking at cracking and splitting within a year. Honestly, if you’ve got a roof that’s over ten years old, it’s not a matter of *if* it’s damaged out here, it’s a matter of how bad the last big storm got it.