WILL YOUR FAMILY AND PROPERTY BE PROTECTED WHEN A TORNADO, HAILSTORM OR FLOOD HITS?


ome spring and summer, plants, animals and people aren’t the only things stirring. Mother Nature gets active too, with tornado risk—beginning in March in southern states and extending through the summer months in northern states. About 1,000 tornadoes happen each year in the United States, with some reaching wind speeds of 300 miles per hour.


The risk is even more prevalent for hailstorms. There are about 3,000 each year in the United States, and they have the potential to cause an incredible amount of damage. In 1992 a hailstorm in Fort Worth, Texas, resulted in 68,000 claims with State Farm® totaling nearly $245 million. During a storm you don’t have enough time to think or plan, so prepare now to protect your home and family with these tips.


TORNADO


Arleen Paulson has plenty of tales about members of her tight-knit Wadena, Minnesota, community surviving a June 2010 tornado. There’s one about a swim instructor who hurried kids to a basement and another about a neighbor who


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