Thought I would add a few more pics and commentary of some tornado cleanup I did a couple of months ago. These were the same January tornados that came through and blew the trees over on the house in the other pics. It's very rare for us to get tornados in January in Alabama.
This was all that was left of the first garden home when I arrived. Local volunteers had cleaned up what debris they could. This was taken in what
was the living room. The holes in the drywall are from flying debris.
You can see the kitchen tile to the left in the picture. It was an easy job for the T250. The family rode out the tornado in the hall bath which is on the other side of the brown wall, all 4 of them - it's a miracle they walked away.:notworthy
One of the most erie things to see was the amount of sod and mud that was plastered all over the interior walls of the houses. This was taken inside a house that was 60% intact. The front windows were blown out but the majority of the structure was still there.
The T250 was called upon again to complete the demo on the second house. The contractor wanted to save the slab so that left the 953C at home, which would have been my first choice.
It was tricky getting the roof structure down, but I started at the garage that was still intact and laid it down, inside it's footprint. Then I was able to get high enough to take the main roof structure down. The house in the background is similar to the one I took down.
House down, slab cleaned up and debris pushed to the street. The protocol was to get all the debris to the street for the FEMA contractors to come in and haul it away. This particular house we loaded out in 30 yards, as the insurance paid for it but the other debris from the other houses are still waiting on the FEMA contractors to haul away..:cool2
The amount of destruction in this neighborhood was mind blowing, I love demo but this was totally different....