The Insurance Council of Texas has declared last Fridays hail storm in El Paso a "catastrophe," Mark Hanna, with the ICT, told ABC-7 Monday. Hannah said El Pasoans reported more than $100 million in losses and insurers are sending extra adjusters to El Paso. Saturday, the line at a local State Farm office extended outside into the parking lot Saturday morning, agent Rafael Martinez told ABC-7. Martinez says hes never seen this many hail claims in El Paso since he started at State Farm five years ago. State Farm has had a little more than 1,400 hail claims filed state-wide since Friday, with most of the claims being in El Paso, Martinez said.
ABC-7 caught crews cleaning up rocks and mud in the roadways near UTEP early Monday morning.