Hurricane Sandy’s economic toll is poised to exceed $20 billion after the biggest Atlantic storm slammed into the Eastern U.S., damaging homes and offices and flooding subways in America’s most populated city, according to a Bloomberg story.
According to a press release, the International Cleaning and Restoration Association (ICRA) has created a consumer website to help property owners recover from flood waters as a result of Hurricane Sandy and to help understand the restoration process.
It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Andrew rocked southern Florida. In accordance with the infamous anniversary, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety has revealed a multi-media issue of Disaster Safety Review, which details how things have changed since 1992 along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.
PuroClean has partnered with the American Red Cross as a member of the Red Cross Disaster Responder Program, in which the company will provide support to the program by donating on an ongoing basis in advance of disasters, to help the Red Cross ensure immediate response when disaster strikes.
Catastrophe Cleaning, or “Cat Cleaning,” has announced plans to hire more staff and move to a larger Largo, FL facility due to the high demand for its services, notably electronics restoration and art and document drying. The business plans to move from a 5,000 square foot building to one of 12,000 square feet soon.
In early September 2011, Tropical Storm Lee stalled over central Pennsylvania only a week after Hurricane Irene swept the East Coast. The residual flooding cost residents and businesses thousands to millions of dollars in property damages. This included the hard hit Danville Area School District in Danville, PA.
Seven
tornadoes touched down across the Tri-State area of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio
on March 2, 2012, the largest of which were in Holton, IN, Crittenden and
Piner, KY, and Moscow, OH. All of the tornadoes measured at EF3 on the Enhanced
Fujita Scale.
In September 2011, approximately 30,000 square
feet of water from the Schuylkill River damaged areas at Reading Area Community
College in Reading, Penn.
In July 2010, Nicolet High School in Milwaukee, Wis., a 385,000-square-foot public high school, experienced devastating water and structural damage throughout the basement and first floor levels when up to 5 feet of water poured in from recent flooding rains.
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