Teacher Terry
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I have lived in Texas and Kansas. I am not a fan and have seen hail like that in both states. Hope your roof is fine.
Sigh...
Thirteen months later and another major hailstorm last night. USAA sent me a text this AM noting the potential for hail damage at our location and providing a link to file a claim. The roof (#4 in the 21 years we've lived here) is less than a year old.
This is getting old.
Was there any impact on the scorpions, rattlesnakes, fire ants, crazy raspberry ants, cockroaches on steroids, killer bees, mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, tarantulas, brown recluse spiders, love bugs, swarming crickets, copperheads, cottonmouths, rabid skunks, wild hogs, or alligators?
How about the fascia, did it get dented ?
Or the house siding, our vinyl siding had holes and cracks from hail once, on the side where the hail came from.
On a related note, a neighbor that had one of those quick roofing companies that show up after a hail storm a few years ago, currently has tarps on their roof, seems it's leaking after just a few years
I can't make the math work (see sig line) to justify the cost of a metal roof.
In round numbers, the cost to replace my asphalt shingle roof was $25k. A metal roof would cost between $60k and $75k. Accounting for an insurance discount of roughly $600/yr and a deductible of $6000 each time I replace the shingle roof (an average of once every 7 years), I estimate I would not break even until roughly the year 2045. I'll be dead by then.
Was there any impact on the scorpions, rattlesnakes, fire ants, crazy raspberry ants, cockroaches on steroids, killer bees, mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, tarantulas, brown recluse spiders, love bugs, swarming crickets, copperheads, cottonmouths, rabid skunks, wild hogs, or alligators?
Are you saying your roof costs 25K every time you replace it?
I paid 10K for mine. They last about 30 years in CA.
I think the scorpions loved it. Walking the dog this morning I saw two of them sitting under a small umbrella sipping what appeared to be an adult beverage using hailstones to mix it "on the rocks".
Another good reason to stay there and not move to Texas!
Sigh...
Thirteen months later and another major hailstorm last night. USAA sent me a text this AM noting the potential for hail damage at our location and providing a link to file a claim. The roof (#4 in the 21 years we've lived here) is less than a year old.
This is getting old.