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Communities were battered with rain, hail, wind, thunder and lots of lightning across the province this past week.
As residents in Regina, Saskatoon, Craven, Eston, Mistusinne and other areas continue with clean-ups and dry-outs, SGI is starting to tally up the number of insurance claims it’s handling.
The following is a list of claims the provider has received over the past week for five big storms that hit the prairies. The numbers are current as of 12 noon on Friday, July 19.
Regina
The Queen City was doused with a torrential downpour Tuesday night, leaving flash floods and soggy basements across the city in little more than an hour’s time.
- Auto claims for storm damage: 69
- Property claims for storm damage: 60
Saskatoon
A nasty plow wind tore through the bridge city, busting trees, roofs and fences. SGI said it’s still early, and it expects to see several claims filed by Monday.
- Auto claims for storm damage: 1
- Property claims for storm damage: 0
Craven
Back-to-back storms disrupted the Country Thunder festival to the point of keeping headliner Tim McGraw off the stage on July 13 and cutting short Travis Tritt’s show earlier in the evening; hail and strong winds had campers’ trailers shaking and country music fans running for cover on waiting buses on July 14.
- Auto claims for storm damage: 35
- Property claims for storm damage: 0
Eston
Plow winds took their destructive toll on the western town, levelling buildings, forcing residents indoors and cutting off power to the town on Sunday evening. The numbers bear out the damage; they represent claims filed on July 13 and July 14, SGI said.
- Auto claims for storm damage: 114
- Property claims for storm damage: 62
Mistusinne
Toonie-sized hail pelted the resort village on the far east side of Lake Diefenbaker. The massive ice-balls took their toll on the area’s vehicles. Numbers here represent claims filed from the Lake Diefenbaker area from July 12 to 15.
- Auto claims for storm damage: 231
- Property claims for storm damage: 39
In context
SGI communications person Scott McGregor said that so far, the insurance provider is around the average for claims handled in a given time period, from May 18 to July 19.
During that date range this year, it has handled 3,387 auto claims for storm damage and 1,199 property claims for storm damage.
Expressed in another way, Lake Diefenbaker’s 231 auto claims from those four days represent 6.8 per cent of all auto claims filed with SGI from May 18 to July 19.
Eston’s auto claims represent 3.4 per cent of all auto claims filed in the same time period.
McGregor said the current claim numbers are slightly below the five-year average for the specified time period: 5,864 for auto; 2,004 for property.