An Account of the Biggest Clean Up of My Life
posted on 30 January 2012 | posted in
Construction and Industrial
The biggest clean up that I ever had to do started in September 2004. I lived in Gulf Shores Alabama and on September 16 Hurricane Ivan hit and almost destroyed my home. Only the underground oil tanks survived. The debris that was left in my yard was almost hard to believe. There were boats, lawn mowers, bunk beds, air conditioners, a pier, luggage, silverware, trees...I could go on and on. It took a couple months to clean the yard and by the time we were finished it actually took 5 dump trucks to haul it all away. But that was just part of the clean up. The inside of the house was a huge mess. The first floor had been partially under water from the flooding and the second floor had damage from the holes in the roof. We had to get rid of most of the furniture and tear out all the carpet and vinyl. Some of the walls had to be torn out and rebuilt and all the ceilings had to be repaired. The clean up began in September of 2004 and was finally finished in August of 2005. Then Hurricane Katrina hit. But that is another story...
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