•January 17, 2018•

By Jim Nowlan
NP Guest Columnist

“Nothing is normal anymore. Something is going on.” So says Ron Oldeen of Kewanee. Ron has been putting on high quality roofs and repairing old ones for half a century in the region between the Quad-Cities and Peoria.

Ron is a man of few words, and these came unsolicited recently. Ron had stopped by to check a minor roof issue on the 1890 building where live. I was intrigued.

“We are noticing a lot of storms,” Ron added. “Last February we had six hail storms in the area—Peoria, Canton, Kewanee and elsewhere. Not a single hail storm hitting six places, but six different storms.”     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.