How to File Hail Damage Claims After Coastal Bend Hail Storm, Experts Say<\/a><\/p>\nFrom a distance, the dents look like lines and squiggles \u2014 but up close, they tell a clear story of just how much damage Saturday\u2019s hailstorm left behind in Portland.<\/p>\n
Chris Escobar with Al Willeford Collision Center says he\u2019s never seen anything like it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomewhere between 60 and 70 cars in the lot right now, which in two days is just unbelievable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The storm may be over, but Escobar says its impact is still here.<\/p>\n
\u201cPortland police chief was right behind me, I was opening up at 7 o’clock and it started from there and it has never stopped,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Business has been steady since he opened the shop Monday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople keep coming and coming. They don’t have anywhere to go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The work is not only time-consuming, but it also varies from car to car \u2014 with some repairs costing tens of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst estimate I wrote, the one that was behind me earlier Monday morning, $24,000. There’s an awful lot of vehicles with that damage on them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The damage is also keeping Tito Xayasene, co-owner of Major League Dents in Corpus Christi, busy. He warns that ignoring hail damage now could end up costing you much more later.<\/p>\n
\u201cDepending on if they own their vehicle or if it’s a leased vehicle, or if they’re paying on it, there are things called lien holders. Those lien holders are going to hold you responsible for that car because in reality it is their car until you pay it off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The repairs are sending his team into maximum overdrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Portland\u2019s massive hailstorm, repair shops are flooded with damaged cars, forcing some repairs to spill over into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-37604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}