Unstuck from the mouth of my roof

So we had a windstorm the other night and it whipped a piece of siding nearly off the house. Right now it's hanging by a single nail right over the back door. To be fair I knew it was going to happen sooner or later, it had been kinda loose since the last windstorm we had. I was just hoping there would never be another windstorm. Ever.

It seems that my hopes sown in stupidity have now borne the fruit of forgone conclusion. So I can't really complain too much.

Anyways, I went down to the Home Depot today and got all the tools I needed to fix the thing, except for some kind of hover device which would offset the somewhat steep pitch of my roof. From the outside it doesn't look so bad I guess, but I think it's actually around 60° or something.

I don't have a ladder but I do have roof access through my upstairs window, so I gave it the ol' college try and nearly slipped to my death on the first attempt. Then I changed from my loafers into my tennis shoes and gave it another go. Fared slightly better, I got halfway out the window, but there was no getting past the fact that my shoes and high center of gravity just were not going to cut it.

So Rowan suggested I ask her brother, who's a handy dude, if he'd be able to help. I felt kind of weird though being like, "Oh hey I almost died trying this, but you wanna give it a shot?" But I imagine he has more experience than me, or at least better shoes.

Luckily there's not any rain in the forecast for a while, so I can be content with the further trashiness happening at the back of my house. Ahhh, feels good.