It was a wild windy Tuesday night and Wednesday morning (February 12 & 13, 2019) as I am sure you heard the winds howling whenever you awoke during the night. And there were reports of trees being downed in some… Read More
Category Archives: Weather Events
High Winds and Tornadoes – November 5 2017
After watching the local weather people describe the swirling winds moving toward us from in Northwest Ohio, my wife and I looked out the front window and seeing the rain passing sideways decided to spend the next part of… Read More
The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!
“The sky is falling, the sky is falling”, said Chicken Little. No my little feathered friend its just ice…very large pieces of ice. See featured photograph. Throughout our years of structural investigations we have seen various building components, such as,… Read More
Windy March Living Up to Its Reputation (March 1 & 9, 2017)
If March seems to have been a windy month this year, you would be right. Two of the first nine days of March boast of peak wind gusts up to 61 MPH recorded at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. For those keeping track… Read More
A Lifted (Heaved) Basement Floor Slab
What would cause a concrete basement floor slab to lift in this fashion? The basement floor slab was lifted up about eight inches or so. The area of floor slab over the sanitary sewer lines was lifted more than the… Read More
Hail Damage Revisited
It is that time of year again when we have thunderstorms with hail. And, we are sometimes called in to evaluate damage to roof to determine whether or not it is hail damage. There are times when these evaluations are… Read More
Storm With Significant Sized Hail in New London (June 16 2016)
What is significant? Measurably larger than a quarter. FOX8 reported there was “large hail” in Huron County through the night. This is the threshold size for hail impact damage for three-tab composite asphalt shingles. This does not mean there IS… Read More
What a storm we had yesterday (June 5, 2016)! – in some areas.
It was reported that in Sandusky the Cedar Point Causeway is shut down due to power lines and utility poles being damaged. Some Sandusky neighborhoods had trees toppled at the roots. The latter are usually indicative of winds over 55… Read More