Storm & emergency response
Units on the ground after a storm
A named storm comes through, a main breaks, an outage takes a building's plumbing with it. The need is immediate and it is rarely where anyone planned for it to be. What matters is a truck that can actually get there and a clear picture of the ground.
Before the storm
Standing placements get secured, relocated or removed as a named storm enters the forecast. Anything in a surge zone comes out rather than being ballasted - a unit that ends up in the marsh is worse than no unit.
After it passes
Placement follows the roads. Once the route is clear, units go to the crews, the staging areas and the sites that lost plumbing. Access is the whole problem: flooded approaches, downed limbs and rough shoulders decide what is reachable.
Utility and restoration crews
Line crews, tree crews, drainage crews and restoration contractors all end up working somewhere with nothing. Units on those sites go in fast and get serviced on a compressed rhythm because the use is heavy and constant.
Before you call
Storm & Emergency Response - the usual questions
As fast as the roads allow, and we will be straight with you about it rather than promising a window we cannot hold. The honest constraint after a big storm is access, not stock.
They get secured, relocated or removed depending on where they are. Surge-zone placements come out. That decision gets made as the forecast firms up, not on the day.
Yes, and those need the counts done properly - a staging area running around the clock burns through capacity far faster than the same headcount on a normal day, so service frequency goes up with it.
That is a fast call and usually a small one - a couple of units and a hand-wash station at the door, placed the same day where we can reach the site.
An empty unit is light and will move in serious wind, which is exactly why they are secured or removed rather than left standing. A unit that has been properly placed and weighted rides out ordinary weather without trouble.
The quote is still flat and still given on the phone before anything is booked. What changes in an emergency is the service frequency, not the way we price it.
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Other kinds of job
Planning storm & emergency response in Jacksonville?
Describe the job and the ground it is going on. You get the count and the number on the same call.