Payne estimates an architectural shingle lasts 30-40 years. A three-tab shingle, which can have a wind rating of 60 mph, Olson said, can carry a sliding scale warranty for 25 years.

Shingles are not supposed to shed granules and curl until they have outlived their warranty. I know this because I’m old enough to have witnessed for decades how shingles used to perform.

A three-tab shingle, which can have a wind rating of 60 mph, Olson said, can carry a sliding scale warranty for 25 years. Workers install shingles on a roof at a home in Hendersonville, Tenn ...

Clear Choice Home Improvements installs shingles the correct way — by hand nailing each shingle to ensure a solid connection. “There is only one right way to put on a roof,” McGonigle said.

By doing so the tabs of the shingles are not as vulnerable to wind getting under them and peeling them back. That helps prevent “blow-offs” like you experienced.

Jon Brady and his crew go wherever the wind takes them, and Friday it brought them to Olympus Cove because as Brady himself said, “Mother nature is a force all its own.” ...