Well HELLO!! I am back FINALLY!! And lots has happened to Curtis and I and we have been very busy. Thankfully we were hired in May to work for State Farm thru a company called Worley Claim Services. This was a dream come true. We had been working in Corpus Christie, Texas for John Deere doing some crop work and completed that work on May 2nd. That very evening we had the call that we have been waiting on for 2 years!! A bad hail storm had hit Oklahoma City and they needed help, since Curtis has his Oklahoma licenses. When we arrived in Norman, Oklahoma on May 3rd, we were told that we would be working for 3 weeks, well it seemed it would not quit hailing in Oklahoma City, we received 5 more hail storms while we were there and we ended up spending right up to 3 months there. The work was good and we both learned so much!! We love State Farm!! Learning State Farm was a huge process and the first 2 weeks seem like a big blur, but we finally got in cync with things and got off to a great start to complete 21/2 months, last Friday.
We got to go home and see the kids and friends and family and the next call came on Wednesday afternoon to work hurricane "DOLLY".
We left home on Thursday to drive the 14 long hours to arrive in McAllen, Tx to an area of complete chaos!! We spent 5 hours looking for a place to stay. We finally located a nice room in Rio Grande City, Tx which is about 45 miles west from our service center in McAllen. We are planning to stay here for 3 nights and hopefully find a place in Brownsville, Tx to stay for the rest of our work here. We have orientation Saturday morning to find out exactly where and how many claims there will be. We are excited to be working and know that we are in for alot more learning.
Damages can be seen in McAllen and Edinburg, but we are told the heavier damages are east of us and due to the roads being closed we were unable to travel that direction.
McAllen still did not have complete electricity through out the town today, so all businesses and resturaunts were closed. Funny feeling to drive the streets with 1000's others with no red lights working and no businesses open.
I will be posting pictures and experiences through out this venture, and hope to be posting on a daily basis. No promises, but I will try!
Keep checking--until then......