If you have clients in the Calgary area who suffered property damage in the June 13 hail storm, they could be waiting a while to get their properties repaired, an executive for one independent adjusting firm suggests.
“There are tens of thousands of residences impacted and there is simply is not enough capacity to engage and effect immediate repairs on that number of damaged structures,” said Walter Waugh, vice president of operations for Western Canada at Crawford & Company (Canada) Inc.
Some Calgary neighbourhoods were hit the evening of June 13 with hail the size of tennis balls, the CP reported earlier.
The photos of the damage are “pretty startling,” Crawford Canada chief client officer Greg Smith told Canadian Underwriter Thursday. “You cant believe that damage was caused by hail when you look at it.”
Quite often in a thunderstorm, hail drops due to gravity, said Glenn McGillivray, managing director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. “In this case we had downbursts,” McGillivray said of the June 13 Calgary-area storm. “It acts like a sandblasting effect.”