Florida Recovery Focuses On Housing, Services, Debris 08/30/2004
Clean-up crews working in the area ravaged by Hurricane Charleys Aug. 13 rampage through Florida say the work is well under way and shifting from the response to the recovery phase. Some believe the volume of debris and ultimate cost of removal probably will be the largest in state history.
"Its going to be massive," says Brian Thomason, a vice president and manager on the job for Grubbs Emergency Services Inc., Brooksville, Fla. "Andrew was around 13 million cu yd. We are going to pass that for sure," he says. Grubbs is one of three large firms involved. It has 1,000 trucks and 2,500 workers hauling, reducing and disposing of vegetation and building debris. It is using 11 collection and reduction sites ranging from 7 to 40 acres each, scattered across five counties.