Emergency Roofing Specialist Bring Services To St. Cloud, MN, After Hail & High Winds Damage Properties On May 12, 2022

More than 500 storms ripped through the Midwest on Thursday, May 12th, battering St. Cloud, Minnesota, rooftops with hailstones, downing trees, and flipping over semi-trucks on I-94 before drowning the region in record-setting rainfall.

Stearns County and other municipalities were hard at work trying to restore power and assess widespread wind and hail damage to roofing systems. Emergency roofing services are critical to take roof leak repair action before heavy rains inflict further property damage. RestoreMaster alerted commercial roof repair field teams to respond in real-time to troubled building owners who sustained wind and hail property damage losses.

“Two-inch hail, winds, and torrential rains were reported Thursday afternoon,” KNSI radio in St. Cloud reported. “KNSI received numerous reports of road flooding, including Pinecone Road in Sartell, Veterans Drive near 33rd Avenue North, and 9th/10th Avenue under Highway 23 near downtown St. Cloud. Between Wednesday and Thursday, the St. Cloud area received at least 3.64 inched of rain.”

“Multiple trees were reportedly uprooted in Meeker County and around the Sartell area. Trees and powerlines were also reported down in Rice and Pierz. Tree damage was also reported on the south side of St. Cloud. Roughly 4,000 people are without power as of Friday morning,” KNSI radio reported. “A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud three miles west of Veterans Drive and County Road 120.”

Multiple tractor-trailers lay on their side in Alexandria and along Highway 23 near Paynesville. The high winds and reported twister doled out some of the worst storm property damage to counties such as Stearns, Douglas, Benton, and Todd. A local high wind and hail damage map shows a lengthy ice storm stretching from Cold Springs east across I-35 and smaller fronts hovering over communities such as Little Falls.

The yellow storm mapping indicates ice up to 1.25 inches in diameter pelted roofs and automobiles. Dark oranges bands show hail more than 1.75 inches making landfall. But the purple section near St. Cloud points to hailstones the size of tennis balls, causing roof damage. The light gray covering much of the region highlights powerful gusts. The darker sections extending over Alexandria show the tornado-strength winds that pushed over tractor-trailers and tasked property owners with finding an emergency roofer to secure buildings.

Strong winds can rip open some roofing systems and cause severe roof wind damage.

Some older roofs can sustain damage from only 50 mph winds.

Roof damage can be severe or mild, depending on various factors which include: materials used on the roof, impact of debris, building height and proximity to other buildings, age, angle and shape of the roof and type of roofing.

Getting a roof inspection & property damage assessment after severe weather like this is important for determining whether you need to address roof damage from hail or high winds.

In situations where you’ve got a leaking roof, experienced disaster roofing contractors can stop the leaks temporarily, by laying tarp or by using a durable shrink-wrap plastic membrane in the affected areas, or even over the entire roof. This will keep your building protected until permanent repairs can take place. This will help prevent mold infestation from water leaks.

Even if you don’t think your roof was damaged, you will want to get your roof inspected if your property falls anywhere within the hail damage map.

Some storm damage problems do not produce symptoms right away.

And insurance companies sometimes enforce deadlines for claims, so you need to get your claim filed quickly.

Emergency response crews are available to provide property owners with assistance in turnkey restoration services, as well as assistance with frozen pipe damage, window damage, siding damage, and roof damage.

We provide services to clients of all types, with hail or wind damage to tile roofing, such as: hospitals, medical facilities, churches, schools, colleges & universities, museums, condos, hotels, warehouses, resorts, retail properties, historical properties, industrial properties, and residential properties.

If your building recently sustained damage due to wind, hail, falling trees, collapsed roof, or other storm-related issues, give us a call today.

We are RestoreMaster, a restoration contractor specializing in wind & hail damage roofing, providing storm damage restoration services including: disaster response, commercial and industrial roofing, tile roof repair, emergency roof repair with tarp or shrink wrap, debris cleanup, water removal, pipe burst cleanup, water damage restoration, tornado damage roofing & restoration.

In addition to that, we respond to disaster situations with: hurricane damage roofing & restoration, mold remediation, interior restoration and construction, windows & doors, and other services to rebuild your property. We also provide fire damage restoration.

If you need storm damage repair, contact RestoreMaster.

Our team, comprised of large loss claims experts works directly with your insurance company to help get your business back into operation again as soon as possible.

As a turnkey restoration contractor, we step in at the beginning with emergency response services and will stay with you throughout the entire process till your property is built back.

The RestoreMaster team of professionals includes: public adjusters, insurance claims experts, large loss attorneys, roofing and building engineers, interior restoration crews, and many more professionals specializing in insurance restoration for storm damage.

We provide repair, replacement and restoration services due to tornado damage and hurricane damage for the following roofing systems: TPO roofing, metal roofing, tile roofing, slate roofing, asphalt shingle roofing, EPDM roofing, roof coatings, torch down roofing, BUR roofing, SBS-modified roofing, PVC roofing.

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