by | Sep 4, 2026 | Storm Damage & Insurance
The branch comes down at two in the morning, or the wind peels back a section of shingles during a November front, and suddenly there is water where water should never be. When we get that call from a homeowner in Lake Stevens or Mukilteo, the first job is not the...
by | Sep 1, 2026 | Storm Damage & Insurance
Back in July we wrote about what to document before storm season. This post answers the question that comes next, usually asked over the phone while a fir limb is still resting on someone’s ridge line in Gig Harbor: is this covered? After 30 years of meeting...
by | Aug 29, 2026 | Storm Damage & Insurance
The wind died down around 2 a.m., and now you are standing at the window with coffee, looking at shingles scattered across the lawn and a branch resting where a branch should not be. This is the moment when the decisions you make — in roughly this order, over roughly...
by | Aug 26, 2026 | Storm Damage & Insurance
It is late August, the lawn is brown, and the last thing on anyone’s mind in Lacey or Federal Way is a windstorm. But the homeowners calling us in a panic every November — tarp on the truck, shingles in the yard, water coming through the hall ceiling — were all...
by | Jul 12, 2026 | Storm Damage & Insurance
Most homeowners think about their roof for the first time the morning after the storm, standing in the driveway, looking up at a missing patch, trying to remember if the gutters were already sagging or if that just happened. We have walked through that conversation...
by | May 31, 2026 | Storm Damage & Insurance
The sun finally broke through over Puget Sound last week, and homeowners from Stanwood to Renton are heading outside to assess what eight months of rain, wind, and atmospheric rivers left behind. Most of the damage we see from a wet PNW spring doesn’t announce...
