Roof Repair & Storm Damage Replacement in Stonewall

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs up here for over twenty years, and if there’s one thing I tell every homeowner in Stonewall, it’s that we’re sitting right in the bullseye of Texas hill country weather. We don’t get the gentle, soaking rains they see down in San Antonio—we get these violent, pop-up supercells that roll in from the southwest, especially in April and May. The geography is the problem: all those rolling hills and the sharp temperature swings between the hot, dry air coming off the Edwards Plateau and the humid Gulf moisture create these spinning updrafts. That’s a recipe for hail that isn’t just pea-sized, but often baseball-sized, and it comes down at an angle, hammering the windward side of your roof like a shotgun blast. I’ve pulled shingles off homes here that looked like Swiss cheese, and it’s not because the shingles were cheap—it’s because the storm just sat right on top of the neighborhood and pounded it for twenty straight minutes.

And it’s not just the hail, it’s the wind that comes with it. We get these straight-line wind events, sometimes hitting 70 or 80 miles an hour, that peel back the corners of your roof deck like a sardine can. The problem is that our older homes, especially the limestone and ranch-style places, often have a shallow roof pitch, which means the wind gets underneath the shingles and lifts them up before the hail even has a chance to do its damage. Then, when the next storm rolls through—and trust me, it will, because we get a second wave in late September and October—that weakened roof is a sitting duck. I’ve seen a single hailstorm in June turn a perfectly good roof into a leaky mess by August, simply because the wind had already loosened the sealant. So when you ask me if you’re at risk, I don’t even have to look at the forecast. I just look at the direction the trees are leaning, and I know we’re due for another one.