San Angelo - TX - Kirby Hartman, the owner of Hartman Roofing in San Angelo says the past few weeks have been beyond busy.

"Several days after the initial storm, since we've had two, one on the 4th of July, one about a week before. We're having probably about 50 calls, at least 50 calls a day," says Kirby Hartman.

"We haven't had our phones just so crazy since 1995, everybody remembers '95."

The 85 mile per hour wind storm that swept through the Concho Valley in June caused roofing damage for hundreds of residents and businesses.

"Residential, there was just shingles blown off all over, but the people that are really really in a predicament are mainly commercial roofs that it took the entire roof off," says Hartman.

"So many of the roofs have blown off, especially a lot of the commercial roofs, the flat roofs. The wind gets underneath them, it's like a big ole sheet, just rips them right off."

To catch up with just the local damages the roofing company has about 5 crews out every day.

"I think all the local roofers, we have a lot of really good contractors here and I think everybody is just bombarded with calls right now."

Hartman Roofing has been in business since 1988 and serves West Texas and parts of the Panhandle.

Kirby says within a month's time, he hopes to have all damages assessed and or repaired.

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OMAHA, Neb.

Thursday's hail storm left car windows bashed in and dents on hoods. The baseball-sized stones also did a number to roofs, and while that damage isn't as noticeable, it's not something to ignore.

Looking from the ground up, it can be difficult to tell which houses have roof damage. Todd Tevelde, project manager for Xcel Roofing, said if you look from the top of some roofs, it offers a revealing perspective of the damage the hail storm left behind.

Tevelde has been busy inspecting dozens of roofs since Friday morning.

"It's been crazy," Tevelde said. "There's a lot of houses that have holes in them, so the first people that called were people that want to make sure that the leaking gets stopped. We try to prioritize those first."

Tevelde said he's finding marks, dents and holes in shingles. Some damage isn't as apparent, but as hail hits a roof, it wears the shingles down.

"You can't see it from the ground, it's not like the shingles just fall off, but it makes a black mark basically and you can feel that it's bruised the matting," Tevelde said. "Now it has no more UV protection, so over a short period of time, that will turn into a hole and then you have water inside."

Tony Johnson owns a home in southwest Omaha and is now one of Xcel Roofing's customers after Thursday's storm.

"Our roof was damaged significantly, so we'll be getting a new roof pretty soon," Johnson said.

Now he's waiting on his insurance adjuster to come look at the damage before repairs are made. Before a person files a claim with their insurance company, Tevelde said they should call a contractor first. Johnson said his insurance company recommended that as well.

"You don't know if you even have damage. I mean, hail is a weird thing," Tevelde said.

Contractors are trying to keep up with all the homes that need to be inspected. Tevelde said Xcel Roofing's wait is around a week.

Johnson knows it may be awhile before his roof is fixed, but he has a positive perspective.

"It's a nuisance, but you know, comparing to what Bellevue went through a couple of weeks ago, I feel very fortunate," Johnson said. "It could have been a lot worse."

When it comes to picking a contractor, Tevelde said the most important thing is making sure they're local. He said many companies come into town after storms hit just to get work.

Tevelde said good companies will offer a free inspection and a five-year workmanship warranty.

He also recommended checking the Better Business Bureau, Angie's List and the Next Door app for reviews and ratings.

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By Kelly Werthmann

DENVER (CBS4) A 102-year-old World War II veteran receives a special gift thanks to the generosity of a local businessman who wanted to thank the centurion for his service.

Harold Nelsons roof was damaged in the devastating hail storm that hit the Denver metro area in May.

CBS4s Kelly Werthmann interviews WWII veteran Harold Nelson (credit: CBS)

He called T. Hackbarth Roofing, a local roofing company, for repairs. They were so impressed with Nelsons service, they offered to do the work for free.

Todd Hackbarth, the owner of T. Hackbarth Roofing (credit: CBS)

Quite often the older they get the more forgotten they get and these guys have made it what we are today as far as liberties and freedoms and that sort of thing, said Todd Hackbarth, the owner of T. Hackbarth Roofing.

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Nelson has lived in his Denver home for nearly 70 years and said hes thankful to have a brand new roof.

Theyre doing a beautiful job, Nelson told CBS4s Kelly Werthmann. I couldnt ask for a better company.

CBS4s Kelly Werthmann interviews WWII veteran Harold Nelson (credit: CBS)

Under Nelsons new roof are a number of memorabilia from his time with the U.S. Army. One shadow box contains the medals he earned, including a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Nelson was drafted in 1941 when he was 26 years old and served with the 3rd Infantry Division during World War II, often under enemy fire.

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This bullet hole here, Nelson said, pointing to his green pith helmet, I got that crossing the river. It went over my ear, but never touched my head.

Nelson told Werthmann about the other bullet holes in his helmet as he described the day he and his fellow servicemen invaded Sicily, Italy.

Harold Nelson shows his helmet from WWII (credit: CBS)

We came in on the south side, he said. Our landing craft infantry couldnt let down the planks, so we jumped into the water and we swam ashore under intense machine gun fire and rifle fire. It killed a lot of my men.

Harold Nelson shows his helmet from WWII (credit: CBS)

Many of Nelsons friends did not survive the war, despite his efforts to protect everyone. He even found ways to keep them fed.

In Italy, I found a cow and milked three helmets full, he said, still holding his battered war helmet. I gave my men some milk to drink and they were tickled to death.

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The war was definitely frightening, he admitted, but Nelson is grateful to have survived.

We lived in the ground for two years, he said. Never had a roof over my head.

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Seventy-five years later, Nelson is living under a new roof thanks to a few men and women he fought to protect decades ago.

I appreciate that, Nelson said of the T. Hackbarth Roofings free service.

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Not only did T. Hackbarth Roofing provide free labor, the manufacturer of the roof shingles, gutters and more provided the materials free of cost.

Kelly Werthmann joined the CBS4 team in 2012 as the morning reporter, covering national stories like the Aurora Theater Shooting and devastating Colorado wildfires. She now anchors CBS4 This Morning over the weekend and reports during the week. Connect with her on Facebook or Twitter @KellyCBS4.

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PHILADELPHIA A Lancaster-based roofing supply company claims another roofing company based in Philadelphia breached its contract with it, in excess of $8,000.00 and associated interest.

Beacon Sales Acquisition, Inc. (doing business as Quality Roofing Supply Co.) filed suit in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on June 19 versus Mazzoni Bros. & Sons Roofing, Inc. and Stephen & Mary Mazzoni, all of Philadelphia.

At the oral instance and request of defendant, Mazzoni Bros. & Sons Roofing, Inc. plaintiff sold and delivered to defendant, Mazzoni Bros. & Sons Roofing, Inc. goods at the times, of the kinds, in the quantities and for the prices set forth in plaintiffs invoices, the complaint states.

Although demand has been made, defendant Mazzoni Bros. & Sons Roofing, Inc. has failed to make payment of the amount of due as above. As a result of the foregoing, there is due and owing from defendant, Mazzoni Bros. & Sons Roofing, Inc. to plaintiff the sum of $8,014.55, which includes all costs of collection and attorneys fees of $1,042.77 as set forth by the credit application and/or terms of sale, the complaint says.

For count of breach of contract, quantum meruit and unjust enrichment, the plaintiff is seeking damages, jointly and severally and as joint tenants by the entireties, jointly and severally, in the sum of $8,014.55, with interest at 18 percent from Dec. 31, 2016 and costs on all counts in this matter.

The plaintiff is represented by James W. Adelman of Morris & Adelman, in Bala Cynwyd.

Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas case 170601955

From the Pennsylvania Record: Reach Courts Reporter Nicholas Malfitano at nickpennrecord@gmail.com

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Half-off special on roofing

Imagine coming home to find half of the shingles missing from your roof and debris all over the ground, even though you never ordered any roofing work. No note of explanation and no one in sight to answer questions.

St. Louis resident Laura McInnis, who is moving to Michigan, made this nightmare discovery last week as she was visiting her house before its sale. A roofing company apparently started work on the wrong house hers and then fled before their mistake could be detected. They left behind a badly secured blue tarp to cover the hole they created.

McInnis eventually tracked down the roofers working on another house several blocks away, and the company has promised to replace her roof free of charge, the Post-Dispatchs Erin Heffernan reported. McInnis seems satisfied to let bygones be bygones, but those roofers caused serious damage and tried to get away without owning up to it.

Had she not gone to extensive efforts to find them, chances are they would never have volunteered a word of it to their bosses. Police cant make her press charges. But those cowardly roofers dont deserve to get off scot-free.

Out of the blue, shortly before 8 oclock Thursday morning, President Donald Trump unleashed two tweets. Read together they said, I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (dont watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came. to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Years Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!

This was an official pronouncement of the president of the United States. Here at Short Takes, we like weird news. But considering the source, this is just too weird.

For reasons known but to himself and God, the leader of the free world thought it was a good idea to go public with a beef with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, betrothed co-hosts of MSNBCs Morning Joe. He thought it was a good idea to reference a plastic surgery. He thought to raise questions about their mental states.

Democrats and Republicans alike objected, some in strenuous terms. We thought the best response was offered by Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska: "Please just stop. This isn't normal and it's beneath the dignity of your office."

In other beneath-the-dignity news: Few phrases roll off President Donald Trumps tongue with as much regularity as do the words fake news. Thats his reference to us, the news media. We report the truth, and when the truth of his bizarre tweets and public taunts and repeated missteps cast him in a bad light, he dismisses it all as fake news made up by reporters.

Which is strange, when you consider how he tries to impress visitors to his golf resorts with framed covers of Time magazine from March 1, 2009, depicting his photo with the headline, The Apprentice is a television smash! Another banner reads: Trump is hitting on all fronts even TV!

The cover is entirely fabricated. Time never published a March 1, 2009, issue. And it didnt profile Trump that year. And the magazine doesnt use exclamation points on its cover.

Trump, however, does use lots of exclamation points, especially in tweets, most of the time when theyre unnecessary and add nothing to the idea hes trying to convey. So the exclamation point is a dead giveaway that he had a personal hand in fabricating his own fake-news magazine cover. Sad.

When Mizzous legendary basketball coach Norm Stewart instructed his players to drive for the basket, he didn't mean the sort of driving that got 23-year-old Nathaniel J. Conant arrested early Sunday morning. Conant went for a joyride in a Volkswagen Passat and wound up on Norm Stewart Court inside the Mizzou Arena, police say.

Conant, of Columbia, Mo., drove the vehicle through a closed gate and then a garage door about 4 a.m., according toUniversity of Missouri police. Golf carts and a gate were damaged during the ride, which police said involved the car making it to the court and back out.

Conant turned himself in after he was identified as the suspect and contacted by police. He was charged with second-degree burglary and four counts of first-degree property damage. He also was relieved of his temporary employment as a utility worker for the university athletic department.

Former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Peoria, once known for his six-pack abs and $5,000 office chandelier, is due in court next month on 24 criminal counts, including theft of government funds, fraud and making false statements.

The German word, schadenfreude, meaning to take joy in the misfortune of others, must have been created for this. It was hard to like Schock, 36, who flaunted the good life, allegedly achieved by treating government and campaign funds as a personal piggy bank. He gaudily redecorated his office to look like Downton Abbey, modeled for the cover of Mens Health and charged thousands of dollars to his government-funded office account for such things as private flights, new cars and tickets to the Super Bowl.

Schock, who was the youngest member of the House when he went to Congress in 2009, resigned on March 31, 2015, immersed in scandal. He pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges.

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ABC Supply buys Ohio roofing materials distributor Milwaukee Business Journal ABC Supply Co. Inc. of Beloit acquired building materials distributor Capstone Supply LLC, which has two locations in Ohio. Both companies specialize in distributing exterior construction materials, especially roofing. ABC Supply announced the ...

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An administrative law judge of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission upheld citations and a total of $6,013 in penalties assessed against a Georgia roofing company whose employees were not wearing fall protection.

Two compliance safety and health officers from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration observed a group of men working on a hotel roof in Columbus, Georgia, while driving past the worksite in June 2016, according to a commission document. The inspectors initiated an inspection and called the men down off the roof. As they descended in an aerial lift, the men did not have on harnesses and were not tied off to the lift.

The inspectors later discovered the men worked for Atlanta-based Empire Roofing Company of Georgia Inc. and had been applying a sealing material to the roof, exposing them to a 40-foot fall, according to the document. Based on the inspection, OSHA issued a serious citation alleging two violations and an other than serious citation for failing to ensure employees wore a personal fall arrest system while riding in the aerial lift, for not ensuring employees were protected from falls while working on the roof of the building and for failing to train at least one employee on the chemicals used onsite.

Empire appealed the citations and proposed fines, contending that the employees failure to tie off was the result of unpreventable employee misconduct and that all employees were appropriately trained. But the judge ruled that the employer did not meet the burden to use the defense, which requires more rigorous proof of employee misconduct since supervisors have a duty to protect their employees.

It is not enough that Empire detected violations, the judge wrote. Empire must also have taken steps to correct violations through effective enforcement of its rules.

The commission has adopted the administrative law judges decision as a final order as of June 21.

A company spokesperson and attorney could not be immediately reached for comment.

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"Thanks to men like this, our freedom was secured," said Scott Hamilton, Vice President for Sales at Lon Smith Roofing. "Thanks to heroes like this, America remains the greatest country in the world."

"I'm so honored Lon Smith Roofing is doing this for me," said Mr. Hurst as the roof was being installed on his house in Dallas. "The roof has been leaking and I really had no way to pay for a new roof."

Mr. Hurst was a US Naval aviator in World War II and Korea. He flew the F-6 "Hellcat" and became an ace pilot. After one of the many flights he made, he was landing the plane on the aircraft carrier and the nose gear collapsed. A fire ensued and he suffered broken bones. But he survived and continued to serve.

Today, the 91-year-old lives in Dallas and is 100 percent disabled with his military service being the leading cause of his disability.

"Mr. Hurst, on behalf of Lon Smith Roofing, we want to thank you for your valiant service to our country," Hamilton said as the ceremony in front of the Hurst house concluded. "Providing you with a new roof is the least we can do to say 'thanks.'"

For more information about "Roof for Vets" and about Lon Smith Roofing, go to http://www.lonsmith.com.

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KFDM Investigates: Homeowner's roofing repairs

KFDM Investigates - Roofing repairs:

On one side: An unsatisfied customer.

On the other: The owner of a roofing company.

The two sides tried to settle their differences, but could not reach an agreement.

KFDM's Elaine Kong looked into the dispute, and what she learned may help you to avoid a similar situation.

We also reached out to the BBB, which confirmed that both sides did show up for mediation.

However, the BBB says later they did not hear back from the homeowner and the business.

The BBB says before you hire someone, contact the BBB. Officials say they will be glad to help consumers and explain what to look for when hiring a business.

If you have a problem that you need resolved, you can email us at: news@kfdm.com

And, we will investigate.

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DENVER -- It is summer but the remnants of that huge hailstorm in May are still causing headaches for those hit hard in Northwest Denver.

Homeowners need to avoid a common misunderstanding that can stall efforts to repair damage.

Callie Smith-Gallegos called the Problem Solvers when an issue with her mortgage company stalled her roof repair project, the last thing she expected, or needed, after hail ripped apart the exterior of her home. Our entire carport is gone.

Gallegos hired Citywide Roofing and Exteriors on June 2nd after getting several positive recommendations from friends.

The Problem Solvers learned that Gallegoss mortgage company was holding up the check needed for the job.

Citywide Roofing and Exteriors is in excellent standing with the Colorado Secretary of States office and maintains an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

It turns out that confusion stemming from several companies working together can very often cause tie-ups. Gallegos says she will stick with Citywide Roofing and Exteriors and looks forward to the job being finished.

Jeffrey Hillyer, the companys owner, issued this statement to FOX31 saying, I feel that there was a problem with the communication of who was responsible for what. When dealing with the insurance company the mortgage company, and the people involved with completing this process, there was definitely a breakdown with the communication between all parties. We have since spoken with Mrs. Smith and we have agreed to move forward with the work. I truly regret if we caused anyone any unnecessary inconvenience. As owner of Citywide Roofing & Exteriors, I work very hard to ensure that our employees are offering the very best service possible to our customers, and that we do what we say we are going to do. Customer satisfaction is a priority for me.

Experts say any roofing company can fall victim to complications involving red tape when it comes to insurance claims.

To speed along any type of repair job after a claim is made, homeowners should stay in constant communication with the insurance, mortgage and roofing company to get a realistic idea of how long it will likely take to have hail damage repaired.

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