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No matter where you live in the United States, flooding can happen to you. We're here to help make sure your home is completely restored after a flood. When water damage strikes, every minute, every hour that you wait escalates the cost of repairing and replacing your property. When nature is working stacked against you, it's always best to call on a professional flood damage cleanup team with the experience, knowledge and equipment to take care of your situation quickly and efficiently. We are dedicated to giving you quality service at the best possible rate. Our technitions have been trained in the most up to date water removal techniques and are able to handle jobs from a small home to a large business.
When mother nature shows her strengh, we cant do anything to stop her but we can take certain steps to minimize the water damage if taken quickly enough. From torrential rain causing floods and water damage to the brutal cold causing freezing pipes and a flooded basement. We are available to help you when the unthinkable happens.
In addition to our water damage repair and water removal services, we also provide extensive document drying for those important documents like insurance contracts, guarantees, birth and death documents, wills, social security cards, books to magnetic and micrographic media and sewage damage cleanup services.
You can reach us at 1-800 222-6815 if you are having any water, fire, smoke, or mold problems!
Receded Water Leaves the Flood Damage
As the victims of the flood damage are allowed back into their homes, many find only scrapes of their lives. One picks up a photo of Grandma Wilma, she had died over five years ago. Their memories have been left in small piles that had washed up against a chair or a sofa. The furniture was a total loss. The water had been five to six foot high in their home for three days. The flood damage was enormous.
The wind had blown the shingles off the house, and then removed the sub roof. Their home had been inundated from the ground and from the roof. Their hearts fell as they saw the shattered pieces of what was once their home. It would take great courage to rebuild and start over. The flood damage was overwhelming, leaving them in a state of shock. This was the hardest thing they had ever faced. Could they ever rebuild and live in this home again? The flood damage had not missed an area in their home or in their yard.
Precious sandy loam top soil was washed away, leaving a gravel layer below it exposed. This was now the surface of their yard. Would anything ever grow in this soil? There were important things to contend with. The flood damage was massive. Where should they start? The sight of what is left of their homes has numbed their minds. They are not able to formulate a plan yet. They went to shelters or friend’s homes, where ever they could be safe until power and other utilities were restored to their area. Nothing could be done until then.
FEMA and the insurance companies wanted to see the area as the flood damage had left it. The area had been declared a disaster area and the Federal Government was sending aide to the area to help the families restore their lives as much as possible. They also were concerned with health hazards; bacteria, fungus, parasites, and viruses that breed in this watery world. The sewages and fresh drinking water were blended. It would take time to get the water processing plants dealing with the flood damage.
It took over a week to get power restored to many areas. The people began to remove the water with sump pumps. While pulling carpet and soaked furniture, in hopes that some of their former life could be salvaged. The more they dug the more they realized that their former life was a time before the flood. This experience would divide their lives into before and after.
Some of their clothes could be salvaged and some of the family photo albums had lodged against a landscape bush. With the modern methods of wet document restoration, like freeze drying, they might be able to salvage a few. It was a hope at least, they could hold onto this small hope. It would give them a toehold to beginning to restore the food damage. Life would never be the same, but they would find a strength they did not know they had. They would rebuild and go forward into their futures.
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