When the storm passes, the water stays, and the mold clock starts the same hour. Storm work is water work under the worst conditions there are.
📞 Call now: [TRACKED NUMBER — PENDING ACTIVATION]Storm jobs run the network's standard sequence, with one upgrade: floodwater is treated as contaminated from the first minute, so sanitizing is not a step that can be skipped or shortened:
Storm cleanup is not a theory on this network; the first live market was chosen in the middle of it. When Hurricane Sally made landfall on September 16, 2020 — the first hurricane to strike Alabama since Ivan, sixteen years earlier almost to the day — it dropped more than 20 inches of rain in 24 hours between Mobile and Pensacola, pushed a three-to-four-foot surge across Dauphin Island, and overflowed sewage into Dog River and Rabbit Creek across Mobile County.
That is the storm shape our crews train for: rain water, surge water, and contaminated water arriving in the same house on the same day. The Mobile page carries the city's full exposure picture: water damage restoration in Mobile, Alabama.
Storm cleanup is priced the way water work is priced, because most of it is water work: extraction at $3 to $7 per square foot, a full residential dry-out at $1,500 to $4,500, and large multi-room floods at $5,000 to $15,000 and up. Contaminated water adds sanitizing and disposal, and surge jobs add the muck-out of sand and silt the water carried in.
After a major storm there is also a queue, and it is real: crews work in call order across a whole region. The financial side rewards the same behavior as the physical side: document early, start the claim early, and get in line early.
Where the water came from decides which policy pays. Wind damage and the rain it lets in ride the homeowners policy (minus any hurricane or wind deductible your policy carries). Rising water rides flood insurance only.
Both kinds of water in one house is normal after a hurricane. Crews photograph and log which water reached which room before extraction mixes the evidence; that record is built for exactly the two-claims situation a landfall creates.
Treat it as contaminated, always. Rising water crosses yards, streets, sewers, and fuel on its way in, so storm floodwater and bay surge are handled as the industry's dirtiest category: protective equipment, disinfection of every touched surface, and removal of porous material it soaked. Keep kids and pets out of flooded rooms until a crew has cleared them.
Crews roll when roads and the area are passable and authorities allow re-entry, and after a landfalling hurricane the honest constraint is physics: thousands of homes call in the same 48 hours across a whole coast. Coordinators give real windows in call order, and the homes that documented early and started their claim file early move first through the whole process.
It splits at the waterline. Wind-driven rain entering through a storm-damaged roof or window is usually a homeowners policy claim. Rising water, surge, creek overflow, and bay flooding, is flood damage and needs a separate flood policy. Crews document which water went where, because that single distinction decides which policy pays.
Stay out of standing water near anything electrical, photograph everything before moving it, keep damaged materials for the adjuster, and ventilate what you safely can. The full sequence is written for exactly this moment in our guide to the first hour of a water emergency, published for our first live market, Mobile.
Yes. WaterDamageEmergencyNow only dispatches licensed, insured storm and water damage professionals: local crews based in your market, never unlicensed labor sent from a national call-center list.
Send the callback form on this page and a storm cleanup coordinator will call you back within minutes, 24 hours a day. Your city's tracked phone number is posted at the top of its page the moment it activates.
Storm crews are live now in Mobile, Alabama, a Gulf Coast market that takes hurricanes head-on. Send the form; a coordinator calls back within minutes, 24/7.