Brooklyn Park hail damage sits on the quiet end of this storm. On 73rd Avenue North, on the east side of Shingle Creek Parkway, hail had marked a trash can lid. There were marks on roofs you could see from the street, and dents on mailboxes.
We were standing there in the first week of August, six weeks after the storm. There was not a single roofing sign anywhere.
This is one of nine neighborhood write ups behind the full June 19 map and record.
Why Nobody Has Been Here
Storm crews work a hailstorm from the middle outward. The core is where the damage is worst, easiest to find and easiest to sell, so that is where they go first, and by the time they would work outward the good ones have moved to the next state.
Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center are the outer edge of this storm. That is why these streets are quiet, and it is the whole reason we drove out here.
The uncomfortable version, plainly: some of these owners have damage and nobody will ever tell them. Not because anyone decided to skip them. Because the selling was easier three miles east.
What The Confirmed Brooklyn Park Hail Damage Reports Say
The Minnesota DNR reported one inch hail near Corcoran, Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park. One inch is quarter size.
Standing on Beard Avenue North it looked bigger than that in places, closer to an inch and a half, and both things can be true. Official reports are single point measurements from whoever happened to measure and call it in. Actual stone size varies across a neighborhood, sometimes across a block. The report is a floor, not a ceiling.
An inch and a half over old shingles causes damage. Not maybe. It does.
What We Saw On The Ground
Beard Avenue North is a lot of older shingle roofs. Not a fashionable street, not a new one, and that is the point: this is the housing stock where Brooklyn Park hail damage is most likely and least likely to turn up.
Spots showed plainly on one roof from the sidewalk. A couple of cars carried dents, though a car can pick those up anywhere, so that is a hint rather than proof. There were no roofers, no signs and no sign that anybody had been through, six weeks after the storm.
The honest summary from the street was that this whole neighborhood should have roofs looked at, and that on current form most of them will not.
What Makes This Different From The Core
In Roseville and Columbia Heights the problem is too many people telling homeowners things. Out here the problem is nobody telling them anything.
If you are on these blocks, nobody is pressuring you. The storm crews skipped you. Those two situations need opposite responses. In the core, slow down. Out here, actually go look.
What You Can Check Yourself
The soft metals do most of the work: gutters, downspouts, furnace and plumbing vents, window wrap, the mailbox, the air conditioner fins. On this end of the storm, check the trash can lid and the mailbox specifically. Thin steel and plastic take a visible mark at a stone size that leaves shingles looking untouched from below.
Then look for granules heaped where a downspout empties, and at the cars that were outside that evening.
What We Will Tell You
We are not going to tell you there is damage on your roof, because from the street we do not know. An inch to an inch and a half over an older shingle is the range where it goes either way, and the only way to settle it is for somebody to get on the roof.
We do not interpret policies. Minnesota Statute 325E.66 says a residential contractor may not interpret policy provisions or advise you on your coverage unless they hold a public adjuster license, and we do not. We climb, we document what is there and we hand you the assessment. What the law says, including the two statutes that give two different deadlines to bring a suit, sits on the main storm page.
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