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To: arthurus
In driving around I noticed, though, that the steel roofs fared much better than shingles.

I also noticed that when in hurricane struck areas. I assume shingles are more likely to have wind get under them and do to them what a fish scaler does to a fish.

Once the asphalt shingles are compromised, wind gets beneath the felt paper, everything peels away. Once the wind gets beneath the roof via failed soffit or broken windows, the unstrapped roof becomes a giant kite.

Concrete tiles seemed to fair better until a tile from your upwind neighbor's roof blows into yours and shatters several which in turn blow into your downwind neighbor's roof and shatter his tiles.

53 posted on 10/13/2018 12:15:08 PM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

I saw that with the old ceramic tiles in St Petersburg after a storm way back when. Mostly they held better than anything else but if a couple came up they did a LOT of damage further.


54 posted on 10/13/2018 12:30:26 PM PDT by arthurus (mju)
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