R&R’s “I’ve Never Seen That Before…” contest has been live for a couple of weeks now and so far we’ve received some funny, weird – and gross – entries from restoration and remediation workers all over the country.
I
often poke fun at myself for the history of bad luck I have when I travel. And
in fact, I have an impressive resume* (see the list of unfortunate incidents
I’ve experienced below). So that’s why it was quite a surprise to me that I
hadn’t yet arrived to Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland Resort last Tuesday night when
a supposed gas leak ignited an explosion at one end of the resort, forcing all
5,000 people inside to evacuate (estimates say the blast is responsible for
$750,000 in damage -thankfully, nobody was hurt.)
One of the great things about Hollywood is that we can watch
disaster flicks like Armageddon, 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow knowing that the buildings being destroyed
and havoc being wreaked won’t require a real cleanup. But what if they did?
Last
week, I had the opportunity to sit in on a special Restoration Services
Technician Training class at SunGlo Services (Novi, MI), part of an eight-week program
made possible by the Detroit Workforce Development Department (DWDD) and Independent
Mitigation and Cleaning/Conservation (IMACC) to teach about 40 qualifying Detroiters
(ages 18-21) about the emergency restoration services industry.
It’s not often that we cross-promote feature stories with our sister
publication, ICS Cleaning Specialist,
but a piece in the March issue, recapping the annual Disaster Restoration
& Remediation Market Study, is too significant for us to not make mention
of it on R&R as well.