Severe weather never sleeps!

Quote from: AngryHorse on December 01, 2021, 04:34:17 PM

Our house is double cavity brick walls, which would withstand high winds, but it’s British roof’s that would take a beating!
In UK house’s, it’s basically just the weight of the roof tiles over lapping each other that keeps them in place!, are US roof’s similar?

Interesting on the walls! I don't believe that is ever done here. Usually on 'brick houses' its a layer of brick and the standard 2x4 wood-frame wall behind that (the frame wall is the actual structural component)
Do they also run rebar or anything vertically through the bricks? Or any sort of metal/mesh horizontally every so many rows? This - a reinforced brick (or cinderblock) structural wall - if both are done together, is now being done in some parts of the US to offer much better tornado/hurricane resistance).

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As Foxtronix said, the most common these days in US/Canada is asphalt shingles (underneath the shingles there is a layer of tar-paper (and/or for areas like here where you can get real cold in the winter, ice-shield)).
Shingles nailed or stapled to the Plywood/OSB roofing itself, they also stick together with a tar-like substance...so in a way they form their own (for lack of a better term) 'structural integrity' as a solid surface - as long as the 'tar' adhears/sets up properly (cooking under hot summer sun will do that well! winter is deff not the time to do a roof!).
Its actually pretty dang difficult to get a shingle out if you need to replace it (been there done that). The bad thing is if some do come loose - particularly lower on the roof, it compromises the 'structural integrity' by allowing wind to get underneath...once that starts happening, it can essentially start pealing back shingles going up the roof. Get a couple rows gone and it isn't going to take much to strip the roof.

There are various ratings of shingles for hail/wind resistance. (Here for example code requires both a higher wind and hail rating than other locations..at one time it didn't, but after a number of storms they upgraded the codes!)

With tile roofs, I know the tiles are nailed in place, but what I don't know is if they are also somehow "glued" to eachother like the asphalt ones are by being tar'ed together. Or if its like yours where weight/overlap is what helps hold them. Never had the chance to look over a tiled roof up close.

Quote from: afxms104

also random nails pop up here and there lol

That should not happen. You might get one or 2, but if you're getting multiple, you've got a problem.