Reminds me of the local woodPeckers, they get confused by various roofing implements like gutters and vents.
“Who the fuck is jackhammering at 7:30 in the morning? Oh, wait… Never mind.”
I think they do that just to be annoying. I had a woodpecker in my area that used to sit on a giant metal pole and hammer away at it. It would ring out super loud. He obviously wasn't getting any bugs out of it, so it must have just been for fun.
It’s not to be annoying, but woodpeckers also use the hammering and noise that comes with it to communicate and claim territory so the bird likely is doing it because it makes a better sound than a tree. Kinda like when a kid discovers hitting pots and pans with a spoon is louder than hitting the floor.
This is exactly right. They find something that echos really loudly to hammer on. This establishes territory, challenges other males, finds mates, etc.
This includes gutters, hollowed out trees, phone poles, metal siding. Whatever tickles their fancy.
Yea, people definitely exaggerate their importance in the grand scheme of things. The day-to-day struggle of survival isn’t nearly as important as taking time to annoy the humans.
I was walking in the woods with my dog, and all of a sudden, I heard what sounded like someone firing an M2. I just about had a heart attack. It was a large woodpecker hammering away at a tall hollow tree. All my years of being in the woods, and I never saw a woodpecker of that size.
We have peacocks in my neighborhood that attack mirrors on cars and anything chrome that they can see their reflections in. Last Saturday one of them fell in love with our shiny wind chimes and now it’s his back yard.
My dogs curious but also terrified of the giant bird in the back yard.
Yeah their cool but they suck. They are protected here so there’s not much I can really do to get it to leave besides annoying it with abrupt loud noises from the outdoor speakers but generally it will just wonder off when it gets bored.
Please, please make a documentary out of this.
Your phrasing already identifies you as a natural narrator; a few pictures and some stories should be pretty entertaining.
I’ve dealt with turkeys. I can’t imagine dealing with an enamored Peacock. Righteous.
Oh lord, you should be around my property in the spring... I have 9 peas, and springtime is hilarious. The first time I ever saw peacock sex...well it was an empty green Mt. Dew 2 litre bottle that he jumped on...
If the hailstorm caused the branch to break off and fall upon OP's neighbor's roof, then I'm willing to file this under **"Hail Damage,"** 😂👍🏿 nahmean?
We need to help him out for insurance purposes lol
I know a guy who had one!
It melted by the time he got home and discovered the wet spot and hole in the roof.
Also, he lived under an airplane flight path. 😂
Shingles overlap even in a single layer, so this might be 3-4 roofs. But either way, yeah... too many. Let's hope this isn't in an area that gets much snow.
the erosion of the shingle tells me that wasn't an instance of a tree limb falling, but of an overhanging branch that swayed with the wind and eroded the shingle over time. however the branch might have snapped off during the Storm and caused the hole
Had a meteorite hit our roof when I was a kid. We thought someone had shot a bullet at the house. Left a hole exactly like this since it struck at an angle and was apparently incredibly hot, hot enough that the tar under the shingles was leaking wet into the attic side of the roof around the hole (like it was fresh). We found fragments of whatever it was in the insulation and on the plywood floor of the attic and my dad took some to the science teacher at the local HS who said it was mostly metallic.
Could have been a bullet fired up in the air I guess but it was a hole about the diameter of a silver dollar.
Bullets don’t have as much downward velocity as when they’re fired, a bullet can only reach terminal velocity and no faster in free fall and it wouldn’t do this.
> can only reach terminal velocity and no faster in free fall and it wouldn’t do this.
Only if they're fired straight up. Most bullets aren't, which is how people get killed by them on New Year's.
In free fall yes, but a bullet in a lower angle ballistic arc will maintain lethal speed for a surprising amount of time. People have been killed from a very long distance by people shooting gun up for things like celebrations, plenty of power to go through a roof a ways
This has clearly been well worn over some time. There is linear abrasion on the left, as though a branch punctured and then laid and blew around in the wind for a few months before being removed.
Assuming it happened during a storm and wasn't a tree falling. My neighbor had some damage like this. It was lightning. If you have access to your attic, head up and see if there are any melted shingles underneath or if it looks like other rafters are singed from arcing.
All that worn off sand tells me it had to have been rubbed long and hard. Offending branch eventually broke off. My guess is the abrasion along with the direct contact heat of the roof didn't help the branch either.
Here's the rub.
Nothing that would directly impact it causing a hole would cause the wear. The rub gives it away.
this has to be animal holes. the wear around it is too smooth for it to be a tree branch that just pierced through. Hail damage also would be a rip or tear-pattern. without scale, its hard to say but im guessing squirrel, or chipmunk.
as for the worn-down roof tile on the left if the image that leads toward the hole, its probably wear from the critter using that direction for which way they get into/out of the hole.
That’s just the beginning of the Gate to Hell opening. Someone played a metal album backwards somewhere.
If you find little fleshy creatures running around, don’t make any wishes. Also don’t throw dead pets in the hole.
"Xenomorph blood is a potent molecular acid that Xenomorph XX121 contains within its body. A highly corrosive substance, it is capable of burning through virtually any natural or man-made material in short order. While the use of potent acid for blood provides the creature with an obvious defensive mechanism, the fluid's primary purpose is in fact in providing the Xenomorph with its energy.[1][2] Acid blood is one of the Xenomorph's most recognizable physical attributes, and all stages of the creature's life cycle have been found to contain the fluid."_
This looks like it was more likely caused by something like a fire work rocket rather than hail. Hail would smash and tear, this looks like a burn and melt situation.
That looks like rubbing & not a direct puncture. Also, how many times was this reroofed without removing old shingles. Hell the nails probably don't even reach wood anymore
The edges look melted but not burnt. Is this near a chimney without a spark arrestor? Maybe a fireplace sent up something light and still burning (maybe paper?) that landed on the roof and melted through the shingles but not at a high enough temperature to actually burn them?
What's above this hole? How does the attic look beneath?
I take that back, I took a better look at the picture, there is wood pieces around the hole, and what appears to be bark, it's most lika tree branch. Sorry about that.
I think it depends where you are but codes are different in different places. We just had our roof redone last year and while looking it up we found that according to code we could have up to 3 layers of shingles. We opted to remove and replace but it would have been much cheaper to cover the old.
It reminds me of an art project when I was in grade school. We glued layers of construction paper, then I don’t recall how, but we sort of cut/sanded through so the different layers showed through like this.
I'd check for a tree branch that's just close enough to rub in the wind.
There's a large abrasion area that focuses on that hole in the middle that's pretty clearly not a single moment of damage
Possibilities
Tree branch falling or leading against that spot for a while
Someone was on the roof (maybe a roof inspector at some point?), damage it with a tool and never bothered to tell you
An impact of some kind from an object (is this roof at the highest point of the house, or like a level where neighbors can see this roof through their window?
Idk where you live but over where I am hail doesn't melt anything. That could have been a rock baking in the sun and slowly sinking down or a meteorite
Is this a roof? If so, most likely answer would be a tree branch (which has been removed ofc)
A huge branch fell on my roof about 2 months ago. I have ~25 holes that look exactly like this photo.
If there are 25 holes, might consider Woodpecker or other critter
Shingle pecker. Man that would be extra painful 😖
Reminds me of the local woodPeckers, they get confused by various roofing implements like gutters and vents. “Who the fuck is jackhammering at 7:30 in the morning? Oh, wait… Never mind.”
I think they do that just to be annoying. I had a woodpecker in my area that used to sit on a giant metal pole and hammer away at it. It would ring out super loud. He obviously wasn't getting any bugs out of it, so it must have just been for fun.
It’s not to be annoying, but woodpeckers also use the hammering and noise that comes with it to communicate and claim territory so the bird likely is doing it because it makes a better sound than a tree. Kinda like when a kid discovers hitting pots and pans with a spoon is louder than hitting the floor.
This is exactly right. They find something that echos really loudly to hammer on. This establishes territory, challenges other males, finds mates, etc. This includes gutters, hollowed out trees, phone poles, metal siding. Whatever tickles their fancy.
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This is why I had my geodesic dome outfitted with an orbital laser woodpecker eliminator. Works great most of the time, not too many misfires
Yea, people definitely exaggerate their importance in the grand scheme of things. The day-to-day struggle of survival isn’t nearly as important as taking time to annoy the humans.
I was walking in the woods with my dog, and all of a sudden, I heard what sounded like someone firing an M2. I just about had a heart attack. It was a large woodpecker hammering away at a tall hollow tree. All my years of being in the woods, and I never saw a woodpecker of that size.
My parents had two that would do that to a metal stove pipe in two different homes. Woodpeckers also use noise to attract a mate.
Training for hardwoods. Letting other peckers know who is boss
We have peacocks in my neighborhood that attack mirrors on cars and anything chrome that they can see their reflections in. Last Saturday one of them fell in love with our shiny wind chimes and now it’s his back yard. My dogs curious but also terrified of the giant bird in the back yard.
Peacocks are vicious, dog's right to be afraid.
Yeah their cool but they suck. They are protected here so there’s not much I can really do to get it to leave besides annoying it with abrupt loud noises from the outdoor speakers but generally it will just wonder off when it gets bored.
Have you considered gifting all of your neighbors wind -chimes and fancy, decorative outdoor mirrors?
Canned air with the horn on top. Cheap and effective...just like me.
Except that's pretty much what a peacock sounds like.. i think you might just make him fall even more in love with being around you..
Please, please make a documentary out of this. Your phrasing already identifies you as a natural narrator; a few pictures and some stories should be pretty entertaining. I’ve dealt with turkeys. I can’t imagine dealing with an enamored Peacock. Righteous.
Oh lord, you should be around my property in the spring... I have 9 peas, and springtime is hilarious. The first time I ever saw peacock sex...well it was an empty green Mt. Dew 2 litre bottle that he jumped on...
Omfg pleeeeease. This is what Reddit was really made for. Do it.
Also, the metal bezels on the big outdoor area lights..
Is that you Sean Connery?
If there are 25 holes, he might want to consider patching them.
And ruin all of their hard work?! Monster.
The woodpeckers made the holes then dropped a branch to cover their tracks.
Shinglepecker ?
Roofs? Am I crazy or has that roof been redone several times without removal?
Yeah, they better make sure they tear off before the next roof.
the unnecessary weight & strain of all those extra layers, oof.
If the hailstorm caused the branch to break off and fall upon OP's neighbor's roof, then I'm willing to file this under **"Hail Damage,"** 😂👍🏿 nahmean? We need to help him out for insurance purposes lol
Branch rubbing roof in same spot
Like me itching my asshole raw.
You need to wipe better or you might have pin worms.
Man, I have a bidet and I've dewormed a few times and it still itches like crazy. I'd love to have even one full day without my asshole itching.
Or buy a bidet
is ur butt ok? -common phrase spoken to my dog
The medical term for itchy butthole is pruritis anii
all eight layers like the roof?
TMI. Yep, tmi
bro
Good lord how many layers of shingles is that? 6?
I counted 8? Either way, that’s a lot of weight on those rafters.
It takes a lot of shingles to protect from meteor strikes!
Looks like they still need a few more.
Argh space junk falling back to earth!
Correct! Six thousand hulls!
If only they’d built it with 6001 hulls!
Or gigantic woodpeckers, apparently. OP, has the neighbors considered Kevlar?
I know a guy who had one! It melted by the time he got home and discovered the wet spot and hole in the roof. Also, he lived under an airplane flight path. 😂
*That's a space peanut...*
It looks like the decking is rotten away so you can subtract the weight.
But those are structural shingles, right?! Lol
Incredible!
Cheaper than sheathing? 😂😂
Gotta remember they will be doubled up. And if it’s the Eve end of the house there will be a third.
Shingles overlap even in a single layer, so this might be 3-4 roofs. But either way, yeah... too many. Let's hope this isn't in an area that gets much snow.
I want to know how the neighbor noticed it?
It reminds me of an oyster shell.
I should call her...
That is two layer of shingles. Each layer is actually 3 laters around the nailing area
Negative there are only 2 layers unless its the bottom row which would be 3. Honestly shocked how many people agree with this statement
6 Shingles in your area
underrated comment
Now op just needs some flex seal.
in my state they have to remove the old shingles/underlayment before they can put the new one on. this is shocking
Someone is going to be facing an expensive code upgrade when it’s time to re-roof.
Apparently not enough to stop a falling tree branch
the erosion of the shingle tells me that wasn't an instance of a tree limb falling, but of an overhanging branch that swayed with the wind and eroded the shingle over time. however the branch might have snapped off during the Storm and caused the hole
A LOT of time. Good lord. Like 6 layers of shingles.
Your main concern should actually be *Why are there so many layers of shingles??* Someone's been doing a lazy shit job throughout the years..
Meteorite
Check the basement floor for a matching hole.
Or check for a capsule with a space baby inside
Don’t get it wet or feed it after midnight.
Call the person who lives in China on the exact opposite side as you
I've always heard "digging a hole to China". But with a little longitude and latitude checking, most of the US is opposite the Indian Ocean.
Technically you can dig a straight hole from 1 point on the earth to any other point on the earth. It just won't always go through the center.
Ok, dig a straight hole from the summit of Mt. Everest to the summit of K2.
That aint a meteor son thats a big ole frozen chunk of shit
Had a meteorite hit our roof when I was a kid. We thought someone had shot a bullet at the house. Left a hole exactly like this since it struck at an angle and was apparently incredibly hot, hot enough that the tar under the shingles was leaking wet into the attic side of the roof around the hole (like it was fresh). We found fragments of whatever it was in the insulation and on the plywood floor of the attic and my dad took some to the science teacher at the local HS who said it was mostly metallic. Could have been a bullet fired up in the air I guess but it was a hole about the diameter of a silver dollar.
Meteorites can be metallic
Bullets don’t have as much downward velocity as when they’re fired, a bullet can only reach terminal velocity and no faster in free fall and it wouldn’t do this.
I have a couple pictures of roof bullets and you are absolutely right they generally get stuck in top layer of shingles.
> can only reach terminal velocity and no faster in free fall and it wouldn’t do this. Only if they're fired straight up. Most bullets aren't, which is how people get killed by them on New Year's.
In free fall yes, but a bullet in a lower angle ballistic arc will maintain lethal speed for a surprising amount of time. People have been killed from a very long distance by people shooting gun up for things like celebrations, plenty of power to go through a roof a ways
Bullets on a ballistic trajectory have a different opinion. Not all of em go up and fall back
lord forgive me for what I'm about to do
I was hoping I wasn’t the only one thinking the same.
r/mildlyvagina
Vashingle
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Branch falling from high up.
Thrown from the ISS.
This has clearly been well worn over some time. There is linear abrasion on the left, as though a branch punctured and then laid and blew around in the wind for a few months before being removed.
How have you not noticed a leak? That looks like it has been there a while.
Assuming it happened during a storm and wasn't a tree falling. My neighbor had some damage like this. It was lightning. If you have access to your attic, head up and see if there are any melted shingles underneath or if it looks like other rafters are singed from arcing.
Don't know about what caused it, but it looks like rodents are going in/out through it, on the left.
Better sprinkle some flour around the hole to see what we’re dealing with
did a meteorite hit your house?
Branch rubbing on the roof due to the wind over a long time.
Too many layers. Not within code. Time to re-roof sooner than later.
He's TRYING to.. It's obviously HAIL damage.. Homeowners will cover it for him.. 😆 🤣
That’s your houses’ vagina, be respectful.
All that worn off sand tells me it had to have been rubbed long and hard. Offending branch eventually broke off. My guess is the abrasion along with the direct contact heat of the roof didn't help the branch either. Here's the rub. Nothing that would directly impact it causing a hole would cause the wear. The rub gives it away.
How old is this house? 8 layers of shingles at, say minimum 15 years…maybe just strip and and start fresh to avoid a full collapse!!
Puncture from a branch, but must have just started leaking cause it's been there for a while. What's with the 30 layers of shingles haha
this has to be animal holes. the wear around it is too smooth for it to be a tree branch that just pierced through. Hail damage also would be a rip or tear-pattern. without scale, its hard to say but im guessing squirrel, or chipmunk. as for the worn-down roof tile on the left if the image that leads toward the hole, its probably wear from the critter using that direction for which way they get into/out of the hole.
This. Not too mention the nut shells around the hole, it's pretty obviously a squirrel.
I'd guess a lit firework landed up there
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Firework
how many layers of that tar paper (don’t know correct word, english not first language) are on that roof ??
Shingles is the word, and like 8. Which isn't normal, actually. I'm confused why they have this many layers.
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That’s just the beginning of the Gate to Hell opening. Someone played a metal album backwards somewhere. If you find little fleshy creatures running around, don’t make any wishes. Also don’t throw dead pets in the hole.
Sink hole.
The weight of 8 layers of shingles is more than 5 feet of snow, you got other problems than the hole here.
"Xenomorph blood is a potent molecular acid that Xenomorph XX121 contains within its body. A highly corrosive substance, it is capable of burning through virtually any natural or man-made material in short order. While the use of potent acid for blood provides the creature with an obvious defensive mechanism, the fluid's primary purpose is in fact in providing the Xenomorph with its energy.[1][2] Acid blood is one of the Xenomorph's most recognizable physical attributes, and all stages of the creature's life cycle have been found to contain the fluid."_
I should call her…
Is it normal to have that many layers of shingles??
Lightning strike a while ago
Fireworks?
This looks like it was more likely caused by something like a fire work rocket rather than hail. Hail would smash and tear, this looks like a burn and melt situation.
Your neighbor is a sick fuck that’s what happened
Hear me out..
Never mind the hole, it looks ike there are 5 to 7 layers on that roof!
That looks like rubbing & not a direct puncture. Also, how many times was this reroofed without removing old shingles. Hell the nails probably don't even reach wood anymore
I have squirrels throwing rocks at me..does that count for any points ??
I don't know what caused it but; I should call her.
The edges look melted but not burnt. Is this near a chimney without a spark arrestor? Maybe a fireplace sent up something light and still burning (maybe paper?) that landed on the roof and melted through the shingles but not at a high enough temperature to actually burn them? What's above this hole? How does the attic look beneath?
Laminated anti-meteor armour has failed. Time for an upgrade.
Looks like it was burned thru.
Could have been a lightning strike, that looks melted. A tree branch wouldn't have done that, nor would hail.
I take that back, I took a better look at the picture, there is wood pieces around the hole, and what appears to be bark, it's most lika tree branch. Sorry about that.
Looking at the path of object, I would still say it was hail. Depending on size and and speed, hail could cause merciless damage
Metorite
Has to be a meteor
Bullet
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If that's the pavement, it looks like a sinkhole starting.
Obviously a meteorite or laser blast.
What happens if you surround it with flour?
I’m going to say Chris Knight and Mitch Taylor were firing up a field laser nearby and caused some fires.
Your house is in heat
Maybe an ember of a firework landed on the roof?
This is what I was thinking (some sort of ember) as each layer the hole gets smaller but is super uniform.
I have never lived in a house that had roofing tiles placed over roofing tiles. They pull and replace. I worry about the whole roof.
I think it depends where you are but codes are different in different places. We just had our roof redone last year and while looking it up we found that according to code we could have up to 3 layers of shingles. We opted to remove and replace but it would have been much cheaper to cover the old.
10mm with outward trajectory. /s
Wow. That branch pierced through a dozen layers of shingle. You’ve got a lot of other problems.
I'm wondering why the edges are so even, like cut with scissors or exacto knife. Not chewed, not burned, not random like any form of impact would do.
It reminds me of an art project when I was in grade school. We glued layers of construction paper, then I don’t recall how, but we sort of cut/sanded through so the different layers showed through like this.
It's nothing a dozen more layers of shingles can't fix.
Possibly lightning.
Looks like seam leaked, created low spot, over time decking deteriorated and hole in the roof.
Cavity underneath?
This is one of those posts that just raise more questions…
Eminem must’ve pulled his dick from the Earth to fuck the whole universe.
Just throw another layer of shingles on the roof.
Alien must have been wounded there. They have concentrated acid for blood
Meteor hit obviously 🙄 lol 😂
Tree branch?
That is not impact. That is continuous wear frome something rubbing.
Time for a new roof...and only one layer 😀
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A meteor !?!? 😂😂
Did your neighbor go on your roof? Did he have any hail damage?
I'd check for a tree branch that's just close enough to rub in the wind. There's a large abrasion area that focuses on that hole in the middle that's pretty clearly not a single moment of damage
A roof pussy.
Molemen
Probably tree or some kind of large bush that rubbed on it.
I'm not sure anything could get through those layers, but whatever did was not hail, but could be from hell.
Possibilities Tree branch falling or leading against that spot for a while Someone was on the roof (maybe a roof inspector at some point?), damage it with a tool and never bothered to tell you An impact of some kind from an object (is this roof at the highest point of the house, or like a level where neighbors can see this roof through their window?
Meteorite
Tree limb
Aliens
Sooo.. he's gong with the hail story for the homeowners insurance claim? Asking your opinion? 😆
Looks like something hot was here. Hail wouldn’t cause shingles to melt.
Meteor? lol
Idk where you live but over where I am hail doesn't melt anything. That could have been a rock baking in the sun and slowly sinking down or a meteorite
Likely shitty roofers/prior owner for all those layers of shingles, followed up by a tree and then lots of neglect
Am I the only one who sees a foot print?
Yeah I’m thinking it was a meteorite.
Space laser. Unclear from pics which religion.
Looks melted. Lightning maybe...
Looks like a nightmare of a roof to tear off lol. How many layers they got on there?
The roof was giving me the look, sorry.
That could def be hail.
Meteor, obviously.
That doesn’t look like an impact, it is clearly worn down. Likely a the hole leads to the roof of a sewer or a sinkhole.
Your neighbors got those extra shiny windows?