Missed Connections: Roofing Edition

The weather this February has been unusually warm and that may have you thinking about spring. We all have to-lists and perhaps you also have some home improvement planned.

Here's something I overheard recently.

This guy was outside in his yard doing, I don't honestly know what. Enjoying the first above freezing day in an eternity? Regardless, he took a look at his roof and noticed that some of his shingles seemed to be broken.

"There are just big gaps in my roof" he said to the guy sitting next to him.
"Have your kids been on the roof?"
"My kids? No. No, my kids don't climb on the roof and break off shingles."

There is a simple answer for this and it doesn't involve children trying to kill themselves on snow covered roofs.

This man probably has asphalt shingles. Asphalt shingles become brittle in cold weather making them more likely to break in gusty, winter winds. Kansas City has gotten some record lows and record winds this winter. Even if his shingles have never broken in this manner before, they certainly could have now.

I didn't interrupt him to tell him that. Consider this, then, the Missed Connection posting. It was a warmish day in February...and you were in a Mizzou bar.

And your asphalt shingles are broken from excessive cold and wind.

Spring can't come fast enough.