When Floodwater Becomes a Display at Your Mount Vernon Museum

11/4/2019 (Permalink)

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Removing Floodwater from a Mount Vernon Museum 

The Pacific Northwest is rife with history and culture, and with so many stories and folklore of the region, it is no wonder that places like your Mount Vernon museum experience so much foot traffic. With nearly forty inches of annual rainfall expected throughout the state, there are also causes for concern with conditions like natural flooding, flash flooding, and structural damage that allows for water penetration. 

As the steward of historical artifacts and relics, you must act quickly to protect your business from the destructive power of flood damage to Mount Vernon buildings. There are some steps that you can take initially to help, but ultimately the recovery should get left to the qualified and fast-responding hands of our SERVPRO flood recovery team. We have years of experience and can respond with the right equipment to get extraction and drying efforts started within hours of your initial call. 

We’re Faster To Any Size Disaster, but there are some steps that you can take while our technicians are en route to help best protect the items in your possession at risk from the current flooding. The first of these steps is to install any temporary damming or sandbags to prevent the movement of water effects, especially to susceptible areas with valuable cultural exhibits. You can also work to remove items likely to come into contact with migrating floodwater to a safe, elevated location or another site entirely. 

Extraction is a crucial element to the work that we do after a flood, and our SERVPRO team has multiple options. From our light wands and wet-vacs that can work around tight spaces and confined areas to our trash pumps offering continual draw on the water more than 2 inches in depth, we have solutions that can get us to the crucial drying phases as promptly as possible. 

The exhibits of your museum can capture the eye and the wonder of those passing through the museum, but they are also among the first to suffer damage from spreading flood effects. Let our SERVPRO of Skagit County team help with our experience and premier equipment. Contact us 24/7 by calling (360) 873-8744. 

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