You are hanging out in your living room and having a fun binge-watching fest of your favorite new series. As you recline in your chair you look up and instantly notice something isn’t quite right about your ceiling. You turn on the lights to illuminate the room a bit better and climb up on a chair. It’s water. You have some kind of a leak in your attic, and it has broached the roof and come through the drywall into your ceiling. You were just watching television yesterday in the same spot and did not notice this water circle. The ceiling is not very wet to the touch, so this leads you to believe the leak is fresh.

Now is the time to think back to the last storm. Was it recent? During violent weather outbreaks and strong storm seasons such as monsoons it is typical to experience some form …