September 11 was a somber day for me. From the moment I turned on my car radio in the morning until I went to sleep, words and images kept flooding my mind.

See what readers said about their 2008 losses and their 2009 forecasts.

In just a few months we’ve gone from feast to famine…from too much business to “where is the business?”…from fat and happy to hungry and stunned.

Roofing Contractor magazine is the No. 1 information source in the roofing industry when it comes to new products, industry news, people news, company profiles, contractor features, and cutting-edge advertising. But in this day of economic woes we are faced with criminals who want to literally steal away all the good things contractors have accomplished.

Today’s topic comes courtesy of Brett Hall of Joe Hall Roofing Co., Arlington, Texas, who alerted us to a potentially life-threatening problem that’s gotten some notoriety on the Dallas/Fort Worth evening news.

You are reading the first installment of my blog, “Damato of The Day.” Pretty cheesy, huh? And I cannot even take credit for it.