October 5, 2004
Socorro NM was slaughtered by a freak hailstorm that rolled over the town around 2:30 pm.
The storm last about 45 minutes and covered a area of several square miles. The center
of which seemed to be college campus of New Mexico Tech. Almost every vehicle on campus
suffered greatly from the storm. All damaged vehicles suffered from a broken window
and massive amounts of dents.
Socorro county declared a disaster (email from NMT officals):
SOCORRO COUNTY DECLARES DISASTER AREA Socorro County Commissioners, in an emergency meeting on Oct. 7, declared the county a disaster area. Help for uninsured property owners may be on the way, but the process is lengthy, and everyone is asked to be patient. County Manager Jody Greiner said the county today has started rounding up figures of all damages in the county to forward to the Emergency Preparedness Office in Santa Fe. If the total damage assessment is greater than $2 million in uninsured personal property, Gov. Bill Richardson can ask the President of the United States for an emergency declaration to release federal funds to aid individual property owners. New Mexico’s anti-donation clause prohibits disbursement of state funds to private individuals or corporations. “We do ask everyone to be patient,” Greiner said. W.D. Peterson, Vice President for Administration, is asking all students, faculty and staff to determine their individual, uninsured losses and report them to the Office for Residential Life, which has established an online reporting form at the following link: http://externalweb.nmt.edu/reslife/claim.asp
