Tracking And Locating Storms/Damage
How to be ready and find the storm paths when it is time.

Understanding Insurance Coverage
We will do a brief overview on what types on insurance coverage you will run into and how to explain it to the home owner.

How to get referrals from Insurance Agents
This video shows how to get referrals from insurance agents and build a pipeline of roofing & storm damage Leads.

Objection Handling
This lesson will go into numerous ways to handle homeowner objections to the insurance process.

How To Read The Estimate

Explaining Supplements To The Home Owner

What Causes High Winds
About Lesson

High winds are caused by differences in air pressure in the atmosphere. Here’s a breakdown of how that works:

1. Pressure Gradient Force

  • Wind is essentially air moving from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.

  • The steeper (or stronger) the difference in pressure (called the pressure gradient), the stronger the wind.

2. Weather Systems

  • Low-pressure systems (like cyclones or storms) typically draw in air, which speeds up as it converges and rises.

  • Cold fronts and warm fronts often bring sharp changes in pressure, producing gusty winds.

3. Jet Streams

  • These are fast-moving ribbons of air high in the atmosphere (usually in the upper troposphere).

  • Jet streams can create or enhance surface wind patterns, especially near storm systems.

4. Topography

  • Mountains, valleys, and urban areas can funnel or block air, intensifying local wind speeds (e.g., mountain gap winds like the Santa Anas in California).

5. Temperature Differences

  • Uneven heating of the Earth’s surface (like land heating faster than the ocean) creates thermal gradients, which also lead to pressure differences and wind.

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