Storm Damage Water Cleanup in Ralph, AL

What this looks like in Ralph

After a bad night in this part of the county, power and crews both come back on a rural schedule, and whatever is covering the hole in your roof has to hold through several more bands of rain with nobody attending to it. That is a different standard from a tarp meant to last until morning. A sheet held down with a tire lifts on the first gust and takes the covering around it when it goes.

A tarp that holds is carried over the ridge so its top edge lies on the dry side, then fastened through furring strips screwed into sound decking rather than draped and weighted. A tarp, a bundle of strips and a box of screws sitting in the shed before the season is one of the few genuinely useful things to own at this address.

First move on site

1. Check the load path

   Anything struck by a tree is read for broken rafters, split truss chords and displaced bearing before crews or equipment go in underneath it.

For the step-by-step, including the parts of the job nobody sees, read the Storm Damage Water Cleanup page. Ralph is the broader local page.