The Vultures have Arrived...

Within two days of our hailstorm, the "vultures" arrived.  Or maybe I should just call them

opportunists--the businesses (mostly out-of-towners) that swoop in after a storm

to take advantage of the situation.

With hundreds of homes with siding or roof (or even window) damage,

there is a lot of work to be done, and a lot of money to be spent. 

Most of the businesses are all right--they just want to steer

some of the work their way. 

The vultures are the hard-sell type.  They say they will work exclusively with the insurance company so that "you get a brand-new roof with NO cost to you!"

They use terminology to make it sound like your insurance company is your enemy.  That miserly insurance company isn't going to want to pay, but "we'll make them!"

I just wonder how many people go for that kind of offer.

There must be enough of them because I remember companies like that

coming through after our last hail storm a couple of years ago.

Our insurance company has been very fair--and we've had enough experience with them to realize that.

Our adjuster is coming this week to determine the damage to the roof and

 we have at least 10 holes in the siding on the north side of the house.

And I just wanted to show our own little "craters of the moon" landscape.  The whole garden, which had just been tilled the weekend before is all pock-marked as well.