by | Oct 19, 2026 | Storm Damage & Insurance
Every region has its signature weather, and ours is the fall and winter windstorm. Not tornadoes, not hurricanes, but deep Pacific low-pressure systems that swing up the coast and push wind across the Sound with enough force to take down thousands of trees at a time....
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...
