Blog: Harvey, a CAT adjuster's testimony
Crawford and Company has deployed more than 200 adjusters in Southern Texas to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey. One of them, James Warren, whose own home has been damaged, describes the streets as eerie as there is no power, no road signs, no residents – since all have evacuated and a curfew is imposed. He shares this testimony with us.
I’ve worked on almost every major natural catastrophe in the US in the past 28 years and this will probably be second only to Katrina for the damage it has caused: 55 inches of rain in a large city
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