A year later, hail damage remains in Montour County
Insurance companies, contractors and auto repair shops spent months working on claims following the storm, with one insurance agent saying that her company alone covered
While much of the work has been completed, damage still lingers in some areas because of a backlog of insurance claims and contractor appointments.
Morris and her husband,
Today, her house is more or less back to the way it was before.
"The roof is done, the siding is done, the skylights are in. That's the most important thing," Morris said.
Her son, Rich, helped her to hire contractors. The roof was the most recent repair, and a plastic outdoor storage container, riddled with holes from the hail, still needs to be replaced. Otherwise, it feels like home again.
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Of the cars seen, about 100 were totaled, he estimated.
"We personally brought in about 70 to 80 (non-drivable) vehicles within that 48-hour period" after the storm, Sitler continued. On a normal day, the number is four or five. The largest single repair was about
"We haven't counted all our files, but we think we have around 700" repair claims, she said. A few more hail-related repairs are scheduled through July, with some individual damage totaling
One insurance agent in
"It was unreal"
"I don't believe I ever filed more than two claims in one day" before the storm, but that day, she did 98 by herself and 97 the next day. "We worked until
She said Stetler filed 391 homeowner claims and 559 car claims related to the storm.
"I had to run from office to office to try and catch everybody," he recalled.
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His own home, on
Damage in Pa.:
Many insurance agencies with local branches were unable to provide exact figures on the number of properties damaged and financial damage sustained in the
Numerous hail contractors came to the area to set up shop and address damages. While many were legitimate, a few were accused of swindling residents out of money. A
"It's something you can't rule out"
While the hail stones in
Winds blew the storm across
"I don't think it's a high likelihood we see hail happening again (of that size), at least in the near future," Hoegg said, but "it's something you can't rule out."
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