Getting on the Road

As happens sometimes, adjusting firms are loaded with storm claims fairly quickly. Insurance companies load up their adjusters with storm claims and pass the excess on to vendors like Crawford. The local Crawford branch will load up their staff adjusters and then call adjusters who are independent like myself for their excess. By the time I’m called everyone is pulling their hair out with too much work, too many phone calls and so forth.

I received the call yesterday from Crawford asking if I could go to Seattle to work snow claims and I said yes. The storm was verified by afternoon at which time I had to get into gear. I did have some work I was doing for some local vendors so notifications needed to be made immediately that I could not take any additional work and assurances made that I’d finish what I’d started. Then we had to access what needed to be done with the RV and truck in preparation for the long drive.

Today I had a bunch of apples that needed to be made into applesauce so I started making a pot of apples. Truck had to be taken in to change transmission fluid and then picked up. Crawford’s Seattle Branch called and said that they needed to start sending claims so that people could be contacted.

I’d changed our phone service so the internet was down and 1st thing I had to do was to call AT&T to get the new service up and running. Then later the old line finally went down so I had to change the plugs for the internet. Fortunately while I was dealing with ATT I was in my office here at home so packed up most of my office supplies. The printer will be the last to go out as I’m still using it to print incoming claims.

Finally it is 1:30 and I must start packing clothes. We wanted to leave as soon as Dale would return home from his workshop but it may be as late as 5pm by the time we can walk out the door.

We will drive as far as possible tonight but unfortunately will likely miss Clayton’s. We will start again early tomorrow a.m. and drive to Arcata, on the California/Oregon border where we will pick up Justin who will assist me again. Then onto Seattle, probably a 6- hour drive.

In the meantime while Dale takes his turn driving I’ll finish up the work that I have now, find us a place to stay in Seattle, relax a little and just gear up for the new adventures that wait in Seattle!