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The Unperfect Storm!

On The Job
From the CatAdjuster.org Article Archive. A few months ago, I had a storm that I cannot wait to forget! It seemed that nothing was going right! The dispatching of assignments was the worse that I had ever had before. I had claims 300 miles to the North, 125 miles to the South, and 60 miles to the East. West was ocean, so I lucked out there! Fortunately, we were able to handle some...
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Note: Since CADO first went online in 1995 we have had many members contribute to the site with their articles and forum posts.  But over the years many of these post were lost however, we have recently been able to recover some of the articles and forum post and will be re-posting them as time allows.   They will be posted on this page (Commuunity Blog) with a note indicating that it was a prior post. RC

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Isaac
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Posted In: Hail, Flood, Hurricanes and Weather Events
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