Six months after Hurricane Ida, many people in Upper Dublin have yet to return to normal lives as they are locked in prolonged negotiations with insurance firms or are awaiting repairs.
Max Cummings, owner of a home damaged by Hurricane Ida, gives a tour of his home in Ambler. Max was on second floor where roof was damaged during storm.Around supper time on a turbulent day in early September, Max Cummings was in his kitchen chopping tomatoes asbore down on his Upper Dublin neighborhood.
“They use time as a weapon against you. So you need to brace yourself for that,” Cummings said. “You need to be patient and not be in a hurry. There is big pressure to get your life back to normal as soon as possible. But being in a hurry could lead you to compromise too much because you want to get it over with.”
“There are a lot of claims out there,” said Ira Tackel, the president of the township’s board of commissioners. Insurance firms “are really holding their feet to the fire and making them jump through hoops. It’s a process that’s not being made easy.” An Allstate spokesperson said in an email that it was continuing to work with Cummings and it does “not share specific claim details.”in Louisiana with 150-mile-per-hour winds and spun northward, eventually kicking up tornadoes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The storm caused $65 billion in damages, according to Christian Aid, a U.K. group that tracks damage caused by climate change. Insurers were slammed.