How the SERVPRO Team Helps Disaster Victims Recover from the Storm Damage of Hurricane Season

5/18/2022 (Permalink)

Blog Summary: SERVPRO of Carrollton explains how communities devastated by a hurricane can benefit from disaster recovery services.

SERVPRO of Carrollton provides disaster response and damage restoration services that help communities recover from hurricane damage. A prime example of SERVPRO’s disaster response was on display in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

Hurricane Harvey and SERVPRO’s Disaster Response

On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey slammed into the coast of Texas, causing $125 billion in property damage and disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of residents in the Houston and greater South Texas area. The slow-moving giant brought devastating flooding to the area. Two feet of rain fell in the first 24 hours after the storm made landfall. A measuring site near Jack Brooks Regional Airport recorded 64.58 inches of rainfall, breaking the total rainfall record for a single storm in the continental US. The storm’s footprint covered an estimated 28,949 square miles. The lumbering storm-damaged 204,000 homes, three-fourths of which were outside of the 100-year flood plain. Thirteen million people were impacted by the hurricane.

The Category 4 hurricane had sustained winds of 130 mph and posted wind gusts of up to 140 mph. Hurricane Harvey is the second costliest natural disaster in US history, surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina ($161 billion), which hit the Gulf Coast from August 23 through August 31, 2005.

FEMA referred to the outpouring of aid as a “Historic Disaster Response.” According to FEMA, “The Coast Guard deployed 2,060 personnel, 50 aircraft, 75 boats, and 29 cutters, rescuing 11,022 people and 1,384 pets. FEMA assigned 28 Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams from across the nation to deploy to Texas to assist state and local agencies with the lifesaving mission.”

An estimated 43,000 people needed food and shelter after the storm. Dallas set up a mega-shelter that could accommodate 5,000 people.

SERVPRO launched a massive response to deliver storm and flood damage cleanup and restoration services to the disaster-stricken region. A corporate press release described the restoration franchise’s large-scale response to Hurricane Harvey, stating, “SERVPRO’s Disaster Recovery Team has been activated to help residents and business owners in storm-damaged areas on the Texas coast, throughout the Houston area, and in western Louisiana. SERVPRO’s Disaster Recovery Teams will be assisting the 121 local Franchises already located in the affected areas. SERVPRO has more than 1,000 crews ready to mobilize, with nearly 300 crews already on the ground ready to assist home and business owners.”

SERVPRO of Carrollton and the larger family of SERVPRO professionals are able to come together to provide a well-coordinated response in the event of a catastrophic storm or other major disasters.

The SERVPRO Disaster Recovery Team is prepared to meet the challenges of any size or type of disaster, including a hurricane, tornado, large-scale flooding, or the unusual frigid blast in February of 2021. Strategically positioned storm teams are ready to respond 24/7, 365 days a year, including holidays.

Prepared for the unpredictable, SERVPRO is able to mobilize local command centers, along with the resources of more than 1950 SERVPRO partners nationwide, including Carrollton, TX. No disaster is too big. Recent mass mobilizations of disaster response efforts include:

• 2017 California wildfires
• 2017 Hurricane Irma (Cudjoe Key, Florida
• 2017 Hurricane Harvey (San Jose Island, TX)
• 2016 Hurricane Matthew (McClellanville, South Carolina)
• 2015 Carolina floods
• 2014 Polar Vortex
• 2012 Sandy (Atlantic City, NJ)
• 2010 Nashville floods
• 2008 Ike (Galveston Island, TX)
• 2007 Chicago floods
• 2007 Ohio floods
• 2007 California wildfires
• 2005 Katrina (near New Orleans, Louisiana)
• 2005 Hurricane Wilma (Marco Island, Florida)
• 2005 Hurricane Rita (Southwest Louisiana)

SERVPRO of Carrollton is a leading provider of disaster recovery response because of its ability to leverage networking relationships with other members of the SERVPRO community. SERVPRO of Carrollton has the experience needed to coordinate the manpower, information, logistics, and physical resources to conduct large-scale cleanup, recovery, and restoration. No other US property damage restoration company can match the expertise, manpower, equipment, and logistical capabilities like SERVPRO can.

Commercial enterprises, manufacturing units, distribution centers, hospitals, institutions, and property managers are urged to proactively pre-qualify SERVPRO of Carrollton, TX, as their dedicated property damage cleanup and restoration team. In the event of a natural disaster or a large-loss disaster, one call to SERVPRO of Carrollton gives the customer, large or small, access to a property damage restoration team that can immediately scale to meet any type or size of disaster.

Contact SERVPRO of Carrollton to learn more about storm damage restoration services in Farmers Branch, TX, and nearby areas. The office can be reached by phone at (972) 446-0383 or by email at office@SERVPRO10952.com