CANYON, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — The city of Canyon is continuing to pick up the pieces after a hailstorm came through town early Sunday morning.
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Lacie White with Farmers Insurance in Canyon said the first thing to do right now is mitigate any further damage.
“Do what you can to protect your property, if that means boarding up windows, then you need to board up windows…You just want to prevent further damage,” said White.White also added pictures tell a thousand words.
“They want pictures showing the story of what happened. Any damages, a lot of times with this storm, the windows were broken, so rain came into the interior of the home, you want to clean that up as soon as possible to prevent further damage, but you also want to show that there was water inside, so just taking photos of that damage can tell the adjuster a lot,” said White.White said you don’t have to contact your insurance agent within the first 24 hours, you usually have about a year from the date of loss, but she says the sooner you contact them, the sooner they can get the process rolling…