Prime suggestions for getting ready for a Nor’Easter

We nearly made it this 12 months with no main snowstorm in NH, however as all New Englanders know, October by April is truthful sport for a depraved massive dumb.

1. Have all emergency contact info useful, together with:

• Residence and auto insurance coverage firm title, coverage quantity and phone info.

Many insurance coverage corporations have each phone and on-line reporting capabilities. Here’s a hyperlink to the businesses HPM Insurance coverage represents, and claims reporting info. Insurance coverage corporations are staffed throughout common workplace hours, however there may be sometimes 24/7 reporting for emergencies as properly.

If in case you have a big declare, equivalent to a tree on your private home or a fireplace, you need to file your declare together with your firm versus reporting it on-line. This could assist pace up the method.

• Helpful info to report or monitor energy outages, together with:
• Be aware all vital info on paper. Computer systems and cellular units are nice for reference and notice taking, however not when there is no such thing as a energy.

2. Make sure that necessities are readily available, together with:

• flashlights
• batteries
• prescriptions
• meals and water
  Even for those who do not lose energy and the storm does no harm to your private home, you’ll be able to nonetheless be caught if a tree blocks your solely approach out.
• windshield washer fluid
• salt for the driveway
• shovels and ice scrapers
• full tank of fuel

3. Defend your property:

• Transfer vehicles right into a storage if doable or away from massive timber.
• If your private home is broken, you could make affordable and mandatory repairs to guard the property from additional harm.

For those who can’t assist forestall additional harm, contact a neighborhood contractor or restore firm equivalent to InsurComm at 844-424-9283 or Burke Emergency Repair at 855-716-2825.

4. Keep secure!

• Be sure you keep at the very least 30 toes away from downed energy traces and phone 911 for those who see one. If alive, it will possibly trigger severe harm or dying.
  
• Keep residence if doable to permit the snowplows to do their job with much less visitors.
  
• Use a generator safely.
  
• Cost cellular units and any battery backup chargers ought to the facility go down.

Easy methods to submit a declare as an HPM Insurance coverage buyer:

There are two choices:

1. Contact your insurance coverage firm on to file a declare. For a listing of carriers that HPM Insurance coverage represents, go to our File a Declare web page. If in case you have a declare exterior of our regular enterprise hours of Monday to Friday 8:00am to five:00pm, that is really helpful.
   
   
2. Contact HPM Insurance coverage to submit your declare in your behalf. Experiencing a declare is traumatic, so you might want further steerage. In that case, your account supervisor shall be completely happy to begin the method.

Keep secure! ❄️