As a spokesman for State Farm, Jim Camoriano has worked the aftermaths of hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008 and has seen his share of tornado damage.
But the Joplin tornado, he says, “was by far the most riveting. As I drove through the city, it became apparent that this event was going into the record books.”
State Farm's data does not isolate the vast destruction caused by the EF-5 tornado that devastated Joplin on May 22, 2011 because it started several days of tornadoes in Missouri from May 22-26. During this time, the largest writer of home and auto insurance received about 16,500 claims—and has paid more than $209 million to policyholders.
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