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55 years of hurricanes, floods and fires on the Gulf Coast: the jobs we've finished, the ones we're on now, and what we've learned keeping Emerald Coast homes and businesses standing.

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Our crews post updates from site: photos, drying readings and where each job stands, from first call to all clear.

A living room with wood-look flooring and a sofa, next to the patio doors where water came inWater · Storm

Santa Rosa Beach, FLUpdated Oct 15, 5:23 PM

Hurricane Isaias: six ways water got into one home

After Hurricane Isaias, a home smelled wet and the walls and floors by the patio doors were soaked. Water was getting in at ground level, and we traced six reasons why.

  1. Assess
  2. Mitigate
  3. Dry
  4. Rebuild
  5. All clear
A humidity meter reading 55% at a third-floor patio door overlooking the coastWater · Moisture

Mexico Beach, FLUpdated Oct 7, 4:03 PM

Wet floors, 60% humidity and a leaking deck

A three-story coastal home with wet patio-door floors and muggy rooms. Our moisture investigation traced it to three sources working together, and found one of them under the house.

  1. Assess
  2. Mitigate
  3. Dry
  4. Rebuild
  5. All clear
See all 7 project stories ›

From our project files

Storms we've worked

Past recoveries, from the hurricane coast to the Bahamas. Every photo is from an ALL CLEAR job.

  • A beachfront condo building after catastrophic storm surge

    Wind, water and catastrophic storm surge affected a 100-unit condo complex in Fort Myers Beach, FL.

  • Drying and power equipment outside an arena after a major rain event

    Nashville's Bridgestone Arena following a major rain event.

  • Portable fuel cells loaded on a barge for deployment to the Bahamas after a major storm

    Portable fuel cells loaded on a barge, deployed to the Bahamas following a major storm.

  • A technician extracting standing water from a school hallway

    Extraction of isolated standing water throughout a school district building.

  • An ALL CLEAR remediation management team on break during a storm event in Louisiana

    One of our remediation management teams on break during a storm event in Louisiana.

  • 53-foot ALL CLEAR semi trailers and an industrial desiccant being prepared for deployment

    53' semi trailers and industrial desiccants being prepared for deployment.

The largest recoveries on record

See all 24 projects ›

The storm archive

Every storm, on the record

Each storm opens a file: what hit, where we worked, and the photos from the jobs. Scroll back through the decades.

  1. 1995

    Hurricane Opal

    Category 3 landfall near Pensacola Beach in October.

    Open the job file: Hurricane Opal, 1995
  2. 2004

    Hurricane Ivan

    Category 3 landfall at Gulf Shores; Pensacola and Perdido Key hit hardest.

    Open the job file: Hurricane Ivan, 2004
  3. 2005

    Hurricane Dennis

    Category 3 landfall on Santa Rosa Island near Navarre Beach.

    Open the job file: Hurricane Dennis, 2005
  4. 2005

    Hurricane Katrina

    Category 3 landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi.

    Open the job file: Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  5. 2018

    Hurricane Michael

    Category 5 landfall at Mexico Beach; Panama City devastated.

    1 job on file

    Open the job file: Hurricane Michael, 2018
  6. 2020

    Hurricane Sally

    Category 2 landfall at Gulf Shores with record flooding in Pensacola.

    Open the job file: Hurricane Sally, 2020
  7. 2026

    Hurricane Isaias

    Hit Navarre, Gulf Breeze and Pensacola in October.

    1 job on file

    Open the live file: Hurricane Isaias, 2026
See every storm on one page ›

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Get the storm alert before the storm

Prep checklists when a watch goes up, plus new project stories. Property managers and HOA boards: ask about our pre-storm priority list.