LibreTarp it, board it, document it — before the repair erases the storm.
After a CAT event you're racing the next rain and a desk adjuster who wasn't there. LibreCam stamps GPS, weather, and time on every photo and keeps shooting when the grid — and the cell towers — are down.
A storm claim, documented from first response to final supplement
The scene changes by the hour. Capture it in the order the adjuster will reconstruct it.
Emergency response & mitigation
- The damage as you found it — before a single tarp goes up
- Standing water, blown-in debris, and openings letting weather in
- Tarps, board-ups, and temporary shoring as they go on, dated
- Address in frame so no adjuster can claim it's the wrong house
- Voice-caption the date of loss while you're still standing in it
Scope & adjuster meeting
- Every elevation and the full roofline, wide before close
- Collateral damage: soft metals, gutters, screens, AC fins, fencing
- Contents and interior damage from water that came through the openings
- Walk the adjuster the same photo set you shot on day one
- Pre-existing wear separated from fresh storm damage
Repairs & the supplement trail
- Hidden damage uncovered once demo starts, shot before it's covered
- Every supplement line item backed by a stamped photo
- Before/after pairs against the day-one mitigation shots
- One share link from emergency tarp to final repair
The photos that decide whether you get paid
Storm work runs backwards from every other trade. The most valuable evidence exists for a few hours, before you tarp the opening or pump out the water, and then it's gone. The carrier pays you to stop the damage, but the same tarp that protects the house hides what the storm did. So shoot it first: the opening, the water, the blown-in debris, dated, with the address in frame. A desk adjuster reviewing the claim weeks later wasn't there during the event, and your day-one set is the only thing that puts them on the scene. The same record settles the fight that follows every storm — fresh damage versus pre-existing wear — and backs every line on the supplement once demo opens up what the storm hid. LibreCam keeps it automatic: GPS, weather, and time on every shot, organized by job, handed off as a single link built from a restoration daily photo log. For the roof and water sides of the same claim, see roofing and restoration.
Built for catastrophe response crews
Towers down? Keep shooting.
After a major storm the cell network is the first thing to fail. LibreCam captures and queues offline, then syncs when service comes back.
Date of loss on every photo
Conditions and time stamped automatically. When a desk adjuster questions when the damage happened, your first photo already answers it.
Mitigation, documented before it covers the damage
Shoot the opening, then the tarp going on. One sequence proves you mitigated and preserves what the storm did.
Voice captions in the chaos
Hold the button and say it — 'north elevation, tree through the soffit, water in the master.' The note rides with the photo.
Arrows on the damage
Circle the impact and mark where fresh damage meets old wear. The adjuster sees what you saw on the scene.
One link from tarp to final repair
The adjuster opens a browser gallery — emergency response, scope, supplements, completion — no app on their end.
Frequently Asked Questions
The damage as you found it — the opening, any water inside, the debris — wide then close, with the address in frame. The tarp protects the house but hides the storm, so that before-mitigation set is your only proof of what was there on the date of loss.
Your first photos carry the time and weather conditions automatically. A stamped day-one set is what puts an adjuster reviewing the claim weeks later back on the scene as it was during the event.
Yes. Photos, voice captions, and checklists all capture with zero signal and queue on your phone, then sync once service comes back — which after a CAT event can be days.
Document it as its own thing. Separate fresh storm damage from old wear in the photos and captions, so the carrier can't write off the whole loss as a maintenance issue.
Yes. As demo uncovers what the storm hid, shoot it before it's covered again. Each hidden-damage find becomes its own dated line item in the same share link.
Nothing. LibreCam is free for the whole crew — the free plan is the product, not a trial.