By Sean Copeland

BLOOMINGTON – Hundreds of State Farm Agents are in the midst of a sea of paperwork and floods in South-Eastern Texas in places like Houston and Corpus Christi.

Though meteorologists, specialty communications personnel and various emergency vehicles are already distributed to the area to focus on helping the residents of these areas, State Farm representatives Missy Dundov and Chris Pilcic say the areas most affected aren’t even accessible at this point.

“A lot of area is still restricted access where there is important work going on to do search and rescue that we can’t get into yet,” Pilcic explained. “We have over 1,000 deployed claims specialists who are reporting to Texas.”

Pilcic makes note that as of end of day yesterday there were already 5,000 claims in the affected areas with about half citing home insurance and the other half being car claims. Of the 2,500 car claims currently on file, over 75 percent of them cite damage caused by high water, as major highways and city streets of texas continue to be flooded and simply impassible.

Pilcic says agents will continue to deal with issues from State Farm for as long as it takes. From Bloomington alone, eight catastrophe response vehicles have been deployed with six of them currently in Texas and two more on the way.

Sean Copeland can be reached at [email protected].