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. RestoreMasters 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.

Some roofing systems can be severely harmed by damage from heavy winds, tornadoes, or hail.

Older roofs are susceptible to severe wind damage, by winds as low as 50 mph.

Several factors will determine the severity of roof damage: the height of the building and proximity to nearby structures, the quality of work by the original installers, the shape and angle of the roof, the age and type of roofing materials, and the impact from debris.

After a severe storm of hail or high winds, it is important to get your roof inspected, and have a property damage assessment report so that you can learn whether you have damage to your roofing system.

If roof leaks are a problem, they need to be addressed immediately. Experienced roofing contractors can either cover the affected area (or the entire roof) with a tarp or with a durable shrink wrap plastic membrane until long-term repairs can be made. Preventing water intrusion will help stop mold from growing.

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 symptoms take time to appear.

And insurance companies can require you to get a claim in before their deadline.

Commercial property owners can depend on RestoreMasters emergency response crews to assist them with catastrophic roof damage, siding and window damage, frozen pipe damage, and turnkey restoration services.

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 has sustained harm from fallen trees, collapsed roof or any other damage related to hail, tornado or wind storms, call us today.

RestoreMasters is a hail damage roofing and restoration contractor and provides storm damage restoration services including: commercial and industrial roofing, emergency roof repair, tarping & shrink wrap roofing, tile roof repair, water removal, burst pipe repair, water damage restoration, fire damage cleanup & fire damage restoration, debris cleanup, disaster response, tornado damage roofing & restoration, hurricane damage roofing & restoration, mold remediation, interior restoration and construction services to rebuild your property.

Contact RestoreMasters if you need help fixing storm damage.

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.

We provide all aspects of building restoration, from emergency response services and cleanup to total build back of your facility.

The RestoreMasters 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 the following roofing services: TPO roofing repair, metal roofing replacement, tile roofing hail & wind damge repair, slate roofing replacement, asphalt shingle roofing repair from tornado damage, EPDM roofing restoration, roof coatings, torch down roofing, BUR roofing replacement, SBS-modified roofing repair, PVC roofing restoration.

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