PERRYTON, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – A local roofing contractor is helping Perryton rebuild after an EF-3 tornado swept through the city earlier this month.
Roof Spotters, Inc. is donating $50,000 in materials and labor and 10% of its year-end gross sales to Perryton.
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The owner, LeLand Long, said when he saw the devastation in Perryton on the news, he knew he had to help. The next day he did.
“I felt, you know what, the work I have planned here is not important, but what we can do in Perryton today will be important. So I loaded up eight of my guys, three trucks and the trailer and we drove to Perryton,” Long said. “At the end of the day, one of your reporters asked me, ‘When are you coming back?’ And that question just scared me because I hadn’t thought that far ahead.”
He said after praying about it, he decided to make the donation.
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“So if I make $1 million, we’ll give $100,000 to Perryton. Most of it is spent mainly on roofs. But then over the course of the last week I realized: what now? These people it’s raining on now and the water is seeping in through the sheetrock, dropping the sheetrock and ruining their furniture and everything else. You need help now.”
Long said they have eight roof jobs planned for this week and his team will start on Tuesday. He said these customers are extremely grateful.
“You can’t believe it. You wonder if it’s real. “Are you really going to do that?” Well, tomorrow they’ll find out. We’re really going to do it,” he said. “As you know, the people up there are devastated and just trying to pick up the pieces. Well, if I can get them a dry roof, maybe it’ll help them pick up some of those parts.”
He said 30 to 40 people have already come forward for their roofing needs.
“They’ve heard what we’re doing and they’re like, ‘We need help,’ and now I don’t have the money to do what I’m doing,” Long said. “This is where I need help from the Texas Panhandle. For every three or four roofs I cover, another free roof is completed in Perryton.”
Long said Roof Spotters, Inc. is keen to play an important role in the long-term redevelopment effort. He will bear the cost of the work for the time being.
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“God blessed me and I still have a home, I still have my cars, I still have my family,” Long said. “And so the cost, maybe I won’t make as much money this year as usual, but where your treasure is, there your heart will be, and Luke chapter 12 tells us to keep our treasures in heaven.”
One of Long’s suppliers, IndeedTeed Shingles, is donating two truckloads of shingles to help get started. Long also encourages other companies to get involved in the rebuilding process.
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