Roof Ohio Blog

If it feels like Central Ohio has been under a near-constant drizzle this August, you’re not imagining it. Between the heat dome breaks and the string of afternoon storms rolling through Westerville, Dublin, Powell, and Gahanna, a lot of area homes have taken more rain in the last few weeks than in the two months […]

Central Ohio doesn’t flood like the coasts, but anyone who’s lived through a heavy spring storm season, or watched a summer pop-up thunderstorm dump two inches of rain in twenty minutes, knows we get our own version of the problem. Slow-draining yards, water creeping toward the foundation, gutters overflowing onto the siding. It adds up

If you’ve been putting off replacing that faded, cracked, or storm-damaged siding, here’s some friendly advice from your neighbors at Roof Ohio: don’t wait until spring. Late summer and early fall are actually the smartest window to get new siding installed before Central Ohio’s weather turns on us. We’ve been doing this work in Westerville,

If you live anywhere in the Columbus area, you didn’t need a meteorologist to tell you Tuesday was bad. The National Weather Service has preliminarily confirmed that the storm system that tore through Central Ohio on August 11th was a derecho: a rare, long-lived windstorm that behaves less like a typical thunderstorm and more like

If it feels like Central Ohio has been under a weather watch every other night lately, you’re not imagining it. A stalled front parked over the region has been fueling wave after wave of storms. Isolated pop-up cells one afternoon, a Severe Thunderstorm Watch the next night, then another round of gusty downpours before the

If you’re reading this between funnel cakes at the Ohio Expo Center this weekend, we get it. The state fair has a way of taking over Central Ohio for these twelve days, and then just like that, it’s over. The butter cow gets packed away, the midway lights go dark, and Columbus quietly slides into