Winter storm damage now at $25 million in Georgia
ATLANTA – The latest winter storm to pound Georgia with ice and snow caused an estimated $25 million in damage.
State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said Tuesday that’s the dollar amount of claims filed with property and casualty insurers since the storm hit last week. Hudgens says he expects the total to rise as more claims are filed.
So far, Georgia’s latest bout with brutal winter weather isn’t turning out to be as costly as the first storm that struck two weeks earlier. State officials have said Georgians filed $75 million worth of insurance claims after the initial storm.
Gov. Nathan Deal has convened the first meeting of his severe weather task force, created after he took criticism of the state’s response to a Jan. 28 snow storm that prompted a massive traffic jam in metro Atlanta.
Deal told the group he expects some good recommendations to be made.