Atlanta flood damage repair

If your Atlanta home has been damaged by fire or flood it can be a devastating experience that can stay with you for a life time. The damage can be over whelming and can send people into panic mode. I can only imagine how traumatic it must be to see everything you have worked a life time to acquire floating in muddy water or covered in ash and soot. It would certainly send me into a state of panic. If you have a flooded basement,read ahead.

I have been in the Atlanta flood restoration business in Atlanta for many years but have never been the victim of a flood or fire. Over the years I have seen some really badly damaged homes. I have seen grown men and women reduced to tears too many times to count. I can tell you with certainty that there is a light at the end of tunnel. It is very important to stay calm and choose your next steps carefully.

The first step is to call a local Atlata water, fire and disaster restoration expert. You may think it is better to start cleaning up as best you can yourself or call your insurance company. Please believe me when I tell you it is not. The first thing you need to do is call an expert. The professional will immediately create a plan of action, find your cause of water damage and most likely advise you to start taking pictures and documenting the damage.

The restoration expert has seen water damaged homes many times and once you hear the plan of attack you will immediately start feeling better about the whole situation. Often a basement that is completely filled with water can be pumped out in a matter of hours. Your belongings can be taken to a restoration facility and dried and restored. The Atlanta flood repair expert can contact your insurance company for you. Bring in industrial drying equipment that can remove the moisture from your home before mold can take hold.

Always keep in mind that you are not the first person to have your home damaged by fire or flood and will not be the last. Calling a reputable Atlanta flood repair expert is the first step in regaining your piece of mind and a restored home. As bad as it sounds there are restoration frauds out there. This not the time to penny pinch, use a company that has a proven track record and is well established in the community.

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4 Nov 09 - Here’s how the National Weather Service ranks 24-hour rainfall events in north Georgia.

 

     7.2 inches = 100-year rain event.

     7.7 inches = 200-year rain event.

     8.2 inches = 500-year rain event

     8.7 inches = 1000-year rain event.

     9.7 inches = 5000-year rain event.

     10 inches = 10,000-year rain event.

 

The odds of a 10-inch rain event are just 1 in 10,000, said Georgia’s Senior Hydrologist Kent Frantz. So the 16.7 inches just west of Douglasville had odds that went “off the charts.”

 

“But I should caution that just because the odds are astronomical, something like this could happen again,” said Frantz. Just look at the 21 inches in 24 hours that Americus received during Tropical Storm Alberto in 1994.”

 

     Not only could something like this happen again, I think it is almost

     Inevitable. Its part of the ice-age cycle, and it’s driven by equinoctial

     Precession.

 

     As you know if you’ve read Not by Fire but by Ice, I warn that we should

     Prepared for the worst floods in 11,500 years.

 

     I suggest that “We must map the 11,500-year flood plain. Knowing

     Which areas to avoid during the coming floods could also save millions?

     Of lives.”

 

     I ask, “What about food? What will we eat if northern grain fields are?

     Covered with snow and southern crops covered with mud . . . or completely

     Washed away by the worst floods in 11,500 years?”

 

     Here are a few more excerpts:

 

     “Consider. What happens during a flood? Erosion; then deposition (i.e.

      Sedimentation). Such a process of flood-caused erosion and sedimentation

      Can be seen in the stratigraphic record…literally millions of times through

      History. And each of those millions of floods occurred in phase with

      Equinoctial precession.

 

 

     “Wilmot Bradley noticed the link between sedimentation and precession in

      1930 when he discovered an approximate 22,000-year cycle in the Green

      River formations of Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. But he refused to believe

      His own eyes. It would be easy to say the changes are due to precession, said

      Bradley, except for one thing, "the change from one kind of rock to the other

      Is abrupt."

     “Roger Anderson of the University of New Mexico reported a similar cycle

      In 250-million-year-old sediments of the Delaware Basin in southeast New

      Mexico.  

 

     “Triassic rock formations in northern Italy tell the same story, said Lawrence

      Hardie of Johns Hopkins University...It's a story of repeated floods in sync

      With equinoctial precession. There is "firm evidence," said Hardie, for a

      Regular pulse in sea level oscillations about every 10,000 years.

 

     “The link between sedimentation and equinoctial precession is now "firmly

       Established," said F. J. Hilgen, and is underlain by similar climatic

       Oscillations. (Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 1991)

 

     “The sedimentation cycle appears to have been controlled by precession for

       The last 2.2 billion years, said J. P. Grotzinger of Lamont-Doherty Earth

       Observatory.

 

     “Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Ghana, Honduras,

       India, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Nepal, the Netherlands, North Korea, Norway,

       Spain, Thailand, the United States—more than 26 countries around the

       World—all have seen gigantic floods in the past few years, gigantic floods

       Caused by increasingly larger storms.    

 

      "We have been firmly entrenched in the worst cycle of meteorological

        Disasters in at least 500 years, since before the days of Christopher

        Columbus," says Vermont climatologist Cliff Harris. "Since 1988, there

        Have been more long-standing weather records broken worldwide than

        During any other decade in recorded history!!!" (His exclamation points,

        Not mine.)

 

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