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Downed limbs across South Austin, ~35,000 residents without power, hail from Georgetown to the Hill Country. Your roof remembers what the news forgot.
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On the evening of Sunday, May 10, 2026, a cold front drove a line of storms through the Austin metro with strong wind gusts, heavy rain, and lightning. Austin Energy’s outage map peaked above 14,000 customers — roughly 35,000 people — and KXAN published photo after photo of downed medium and large tree limbs across South Austin. Hail up to 1–1.5 inches fell around Georgetown and Burnet. Earlier that same month, rare morning supercells dropped hail up to baseball size across the Hill Country west of town, damaging roofs and cracking windshields (per CBS Austin reporting).
Hail gets the headlines, but a 60 mph gust does its own work: it lifts shingle tabs and creases them — a fold line that breaks the shingle’s spine and its adhesive seal. Creased shingles never reseal. They flap in the next storm, let water creep under, and fail one by one. From the ground you might see nothing at all; up close, a trained eye can flip them by hand. Falling limbs are more obvious — punctures, gouged granules, cracked decking — but even a limb that “just bounced off” can fracture shingles along its path.
The May 10 limb damage concentrated exactly where South Austin’s oak canopy meets older roofs — our home turf. If a limb came down anywhere on your property, or your fence and patio furniture took wind damage, your roof deserves ten minutes of professional attention. Wind damage is covered by the same homeowner’s policy hail is, and the same documentation rules apply: fresh evidence wins, stale evidence argues.
Every slope walked, every crease and impact photographed, soft metals checked, an honest verdict: real claim, borderline, or you’re fine. If it’s a claim, we handle the insurance process end to end — including turning around denials. No cost, no pressure, and you’ll know where you stand before the next front rolls in.
Free inspection, honest answer, zero pressure — and if your roof is fine, we’ll tell you.
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