St. Anthony hail damage is not a market we drove to. St. Anthony is home. Our shop is on Silver Lake Court, a few minutes from Stinson Boulevard, and Josh has worked these blocks for twenty years. The storm on June 19 went directly over the top of us.
That is worth saying out loud before anything else, because it means we never had to decide whether St. Anthony was worth a trip. We live here. We shot the photographs further down on one of these roofs in the first week of August.
This is one of nine neighborhood write ups behind the full June 19 map and record.
What The St. Anthony Hail Damage Reports Measured
St. Anthony sits between two of the measurements we were able to place precisely. The Columbia Heights report to the northwest came in at an inch and a quarter. The one southeast of it, closer to the Stinson corridor, an inch.
Five of the report positions on our map are ours rather than anyone else's. We surveyed twenty two roofs in the swath in early August and measured the distance from each to the nearest official report, which let us solve those positions to within about ten feet. That is why the pins near St. Anthony sit where they sit.
What Minor Damage Actually Looks Like
This is the useful part, and we can show it rather than describe it.
These two files are the same photograph, one clean and one with the impacts circled in software, which is the entire point.
One photograph of one St. Anthony slope, shown twice. On the left, untouched. On the right, the same frame with four hail impacts circled on it. Every one of them is in the left picture too. This is what minor damage looks like, and it is why nobody settles this from the ground.
Two things about that pair, because both matter. We drew the circles on the photograph in software. Nobody marked the roof itself, and nobody touched the roof between the two frames. And this is a minor case, deliberately. It is not a disaster, we would say so to the owner in those words, and minor is what most of this storm looks like. Minor is also exactly the condition that goes unfound.
What The Housing Stock Means Here
Along Stinson Boulevard and back into the streets off 27th, this is largely late forties through early sixties construction. One story and story and a half homes, modest pitches, mature trees over a lot of them.
Two things follow. A modest pitch holds a stone's impact more squarely than a steep one, where hail tends to glance. And mature tree cover means some roofs got a degree of shelter and their neighbors got none, which is one more reason two houses on the same street came out differently.
What You Can Check Yourself
Gutters, downspouts, furnace and plumbing vents, window wrap, the mailbox, the air conditioner fins. Granules piled at a downspout outlet. The cars that sat outside.
What none of that settles is bruising in the mat, which is the damage that matters, because it does not leak this month. It shortens the roof quietly and turns up years later.
What We Will Tell You
We are the least likely company to oversell a roof on this street, because we have to keep living on it. If it is fine, you will hear that it is fine.
We do not interpret policies. Minnesota Statute 325E.66 says a residential contractor may not advise you on your coverage unless they hold a public adjuster license, and we do not. We climb, we find what is there, we photograph every slope and every elevation, and the Complimentary Exterior Assessment is yours whatever you decide. The full explanation, including the two statutes that give two different deadlines to bring a suit, is on the main storm page.
Before you call us, ask a neighbor. Somebody on your block knows our trucks.
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