Roof Repair & Storm Damage Replacement in Severance

Look, I’ve been roofing up here for over fifteen years, and if there’s one thing I tell every homeowner in Severance, it’s that we’re sitting right in the bullseye of Colorado’s worst weather. You see how we’re nestled right against the foothills? That’s the problem. The warm, moist air coming up from the plains slams into that higher terrain and gets forced upward faster than a jackrabbit. That’s what creates those explosive, pop-up thunderstorms that seem to come out of nowhere on a hot July afternoon. And because we’re on the eastern edge of that lift, the hail doesn’t get a chance to soften up as it falls—it’s still marble to baseball-sized when it hits your roof, coming down sideways with that relentless wind. It’s not just the big stones either; it’s the sheer volume of them hammering the same spot over and over that really chews up the shingles.

Then you’ve got our storm season, which is a double whammy. We get that classic severe weather in late spring, from May into June, when those supercells roll through with straight-line winds that can hit sixty or seventy miles an hour. But what a lot of folks don’t realize is that our second, and often worse, season is in the fall—September and October. That’s when the jet stream dips down and pulls in those cold fronts that clash with the last of the summer heat. I’ve seen roofs that survived a whole summer of storms get completely shredded in one October afternoon. That wind gets under the edge of a shingle, lifts it up, and then the hail just peels it right back. And because our soil here is so heavy with clay, the ground doesn’t absorb the water well, so you get that runoff that can find every little weak spot in your underlayment. It’s a perfect storm, literally, and it’s why I always tell folks to get their roofs checked before the first big snow, not after.