You can read Roseville hail damage off the yard signs before you ever look at a roof. Standing at Woodhill Drive and Delwood in the first week of August, six weeks after the storm, we counted at least ten roofing signs. Not ten from one company. Ten different companies, in one neighborhood.
You do not get that from advertising. That neighborhood was door knocked, hard and quickly, and a month and a half later the signs were still up.
This is one of nine neighborhood write ups behind the full June 19 map and record.
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Where Roseville Hail Damage Sits In The Swath
Roseville sits in the middle of the corridor. The Minnesota DNR listed it among the hardest hit communities, and the nearest official measurement to the south end of the city came in at an inch and a quarter.
A mile or so southwest of that, on the Falcon Heights side, the measurement was two inches. That is the detail worth holding on to. The corridor through Roseville and Falcon Heights carried some of the largest stones in the entire storm, and two inch hail does not care how new your shingles are.
What We Saw On The Ground
Damage visible from the street. Not squinting, not with binoculars. Sitting in the car on a residential street you could pick out the marks on roofs.
That is unusual and it is worth being precise about what it means. Seeing marks from the ground means the damage on those particular roofs is bad enough to read at fifty feet. It says nothing about the house next door. Hail is directional and it travels in a line, so one slope of one house can be hammered while the back of the same house is untouched.
The signs told the rest of it. Ten companies working one neighborhood at once, most of them names that were not in this market in May.
The Part That Should Bother You
Here is what happens next in a neighborhood like this one, and it is the reason we wrote this series.
Crews work a storm from the middle out. They knock the core blocks, sign what signs easily, and move on. What they leave behind is not the undamaged houses. It is the houses where nobody happened to answer the door, the streets one block off the route, and the owners who said no thanks in June and then never thought about it again.
Crews worked Roseville hard. That does not mean they worked it thoroughly, and it is why unfound Roseville hail damage is still sitting on these blocks.
What You Can Check Yourself
Soft metals first: gutters, downspouts, vents, window wrap, the mailbox, the air conditioner fins. Then granules piled where a downspout empties. Then the cars that sat outside that Friday evening.
What none of that shows you is bruising in the mat under the granules, which is the damage that matters, because it does not leak now. It shortens the roof and surfaces a couple of years later, long after anybody connects it to a storm date.
What We Will Tell You
We have talked ourselves out of jobs on this storm and we will do it again. If your roof has five good years left, that is what you will hear, on a free visit, in writing.
We will not tell you what your insurance covers. 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. We do not hold one and we do not want one. We climb, we document, we hand you the assessment. What the law actually says, including the two statutes that give two different deadlines to bring a suit, is laid out on the main storm page.
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