Gainesville gets hit two ways. There is hurricane season, which everybody plans for, and there is the ordinary summer afternoon, which nobody does — this part of the state sees more lightning and more convective storm activity than anywhere else in the country, and a single cell can put a tree through a roof or drop three inches of rain on a yard that has nowhere to send it. Our crews tarp and board up first so the building stops taking on water, then deal with what already got in.
Alachua County sits on covered karst — a limestone shelf under a thin skin of sand and clay, the same geology that opened the Devil’s Millhopper and that drains a large part of the county down through Paynes Prairie rather than out to a river. What that means for a wet building is that stormwater does not run off, it goes down, and a heavy afternoon cell can leave water sitting against a slab in Jonesville or Haile Plantation long after the rain has stopped. Nothing here has a basement either, so a failed supply line spreads flat and fast. Add a rental market where thousands of duplexes and 1970s apartments turn over every August, and a good share of what we dry began as a slow leak nobody was home to notice.
Crews dispatch 24/7 from our Gainesville base at 1126 NW 2nd St, Ste C and cover all of Gainesville — one local team, no subcontracted call centers. See all services in Gainesville or read more about storm & flood damage cleanup.
