{"id":14419,"date":"2013-05-24T10:24:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=14419"},"modified":"2013-06-14T13:37:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T18:37:41","slug":"moore-tornado-victims-face-tragedy-and-insurance-companies-following-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/05\/24\/moore-tornado-victims-face-tragedy-and-insurance-companies-following-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore Tornado Victims Face Tragedy and Insurance Companies Following Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14427\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Tornado victims wait in line to apply for FEMA assistance Wednesday in Moore, Okla.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/FEMAphoto.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14427\" title=\"FEMAphoto\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/FEMAphoto-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tornado victims wait in line to apply for FEMA assistance Wednesday in Moore, Okla.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>An army of insurance adjusters from across the country started to descend on Moore less than 24 hours after Monday\u2019s storm, and by Wednesday morning, a long line of them had formed outside the First Baptist Church.<\/p><p>Many were already in the area because of hail and tornados from earlier storms, and now they&#8217;re in destroyed neighborhoods assessing damage house by house.<\/p><p>FEMA is on the ground in Moore as well, helping people fill out the proper paperwork to start the process of receiving federal financial aid and assistance. The earlier insurance claims and eligibility forms are filled out, the more quickly the money will come.<\/p><p>But insurance adjusters and FEMA workers are just facilitators. And they can\u2019t fully do their jobs until victims do theirs.<\/p><p><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]--><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14419-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/STORY-5-23-WhatsNext.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/STORY-5-23-WhatsNext.mp3\">https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/05\/STORY-5-23-WhatsNext.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An army of insurance adjusters from across the country started to descend on Moore less than 24 hours after Monday\u2019s storm, and by Wednesday morning, a long line of them had formed outside the First Baptist Church.Many were already in the area because of hail and tornados from earlier storms, and now they&#8217;re in destroyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":14427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492],"tags":[24,539],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14713,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14419\/revisions\/14713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}