Storm & Disaster Recovery | South Mississippi Gulf Coast

Dirty Works Altec bucket truck — part of the company-owned response fleet

Temporary Power

Emergency Generator Deployment & Temporary Power

Power is the first domino. No power means the walk-in is a countdown clock, the well pump is dead, and the register doesn't open. Our crew's storm-response roots go back to generator deployment work along the Gulf in the 2000s — setting temporary power in the ugly first days after a storm is where this company learned its trade.

Generator deployment for businesses, farms, and critical equipment
Keep walk-in coolers, freezers, and ice machines running through an outage
Temporary power for cleanup crews and restoration work
Generator hookup, load planning, and fuel-run logistics

We own our generators. After a storm, every rental yard from Mobile to New Orleans is picked clean by noon — we're not standing in that line, and neither are you.

Text Us What Needs Power

Dirty Works crew clearing a fallen tree from a home after a storm

Debris & Trees

Storm Debris Removal & Tree Clearing

A tree on the building, a driveway you can't get down, a parking lot buried in limbs — that's excavator and skid steer work, and we own both. Add our bucket truck for the hangers and leaners you can't safely touch from the ground, and our own dumpsters to haul it all off, and the whole job runs on one crew instead of four phone calls.

Trees off structures, vehicles, and driveways
Bucket-truck work on broken limbs and leaning trees
Lot and access-road clearing with excavator and skid steer
Debris hauled in our own dumpsters — no third-party wait

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Text a Photo of the Damage

Storm damage — an entire tree line snapped by high winds

Board-Up

Emergency Board-Up & Building Stabilization

A building open to the weather gets worse every hour. Blown-out storefront glass, a peeled roof section, a wall that took a tree — the job right now isn't a pretty repair, it's stopping the bleeding. We board openings, tarp and dry-in damaged roofs, and shore up what's sagging so the building is secure until permanent repairs happen.

Board-up of broken windows, doors, and storefronts
Roof tarping and temporary dry-in
Temporary shoring and structure stabilization
Photos and itemized invoices you can hand to your adjuster

Building Open to the Weather? Call

Flood debris pile staged at the curb after storm cleanup

Flood Cleanup

Flood Cleanup Support

When the water goes down, the real work starts. We handle the heavy end of flood recovery: mucking out flooded buildings, tearing out ruined contents and materials, and hauling the mess off in our own dumpsters. Waterlogged debris is brutally heavy — this is machine work, not wheelbarrow work, and we bring the machines.

Muck-out and tear-out of flooded spaces
Ruined contents, flooring, and drywall removed and hauled
Skid steer work for heavy, waterlogged debris
Dumpsters on site through the whole cleanup

Text Us Your Flood Situation

Storm-crushed condenser unit before replacement by Dirty Works

Back In Business

Restaurant & Business Rapid Re-Opening

Here's the angle nobody else on the Coast offers: one company that can restore your power, repair your kitchen equipment, and clear your parking lot. After a storm, a restaurant usually needs three or four contractors who don't talk to each other — an electrician's generator guy, a refrigeration tech, a tree crew, a hauler. We're all of them, with one number and one invoice.

We set temporary power to save the product in your walk-in, then fix what the storm broke — commercial refrigeration and ice machines on the cold side, fryers, ovens, and hot-side equipment in the kitchen — while the excavator clears the lot so customers can actually park. Every day closed is revenue you never get back; we sequence the work to shorten that number.

Get Your Doors Open Again

Hurricane-Season Preparedness for Businesses

The cheapest storm recovery is the one you set up in May. Equipment that's already limping is what dies during a week of outages, brown-outs, and rough generator power — a pre-season preventive maintenance visit catches the weak compressor, the marginal fan motor, and the contactor that won't survive the surge. Then there's the generator question: what actually has to stay powered, what size unit that takes, and where it connects. Answer that in June, not while a named storm is sitting in the Gulf.

Pre-storm PM on refrigeration, kitchen, and HVAC equipment
Generator readiness planning — loads, sizing, connection points
Trimming the limbs and leaners that become roof damage
A number saved in your phone before you need it

Set Up a Pre-Season Visit

Who We Serve

When the Storm Passes, We Work For

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Restaurants & Franchises

Product in the walk-in, a lot full of limbs, and every day closed costing money. We get you serving again.

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Commercial Property

Storefronts, offices, and strip malls that need board-up, debris clearing, and tenants back in the building.

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Schools & Institutions

Campuses that have to reopen fast, with the paperwork and documentation your district requires.

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Homeowners & Farms

Trees on the house, a blocked driveway, a well pump with no power. The same crew and machines, at your place.

Facility networks: if your FM company needs a storm-response vendor with its own equipment covering South Mississippi, send the onboarding packet — COI and W9 on request, photos on every work order.

Service Area

The South Mississippi Gulf Coast

Pearl River County Harrison County Hancock County Lamar County Forrest County Stone County Poplarville Hattiesburg Gulfport Biloxi Bay St. Louis Picayune Slidell, LA

Based in Poplarville, square in the middle of hurricane country — the same storms that hit you hit us, and we respond anyway. After a major storm we cover the hardest-hit areas first. Text us your address and what you're dealing with.

Why Dirty Works

We Don't Rent When You Need Us Most

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Since 2007

Licensed and insured, with crew experience on Gulf storm response going back to the 2000s. This isn't our first hurricane, and it won't be our last.

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Our Own Equipment

Generators, bucket trucks, excavator, skid steer, dumpsters — owned, maintained, and in our yard. When rental fleets are gone by noon on day one, ours rolls.

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Texts Get Through

After a storm, cell networks jam and calls drop — but texts queue and deliver when voice won't connect. Text 601-337-1069 with your address and what's down. That's how you reach us when it counts.

Common Questions

Storm Recovery FAQ

Can you bring a generator to my business after a hurricane?

Yes. We own our generators — we don't wait in the same rental line as everyone else after a storm. We deploy temporary power to keep walk-in coolers, freezers, and critical equipment running while the grid is down. Text 601-337-1069 with your location and what you need to keep powered, and we'll tell you straight what we can do and when.

How do I reach you when cell service is jammed after a storm?

Text us. After a major storm, cell networks are overloaded and calls drop — but text messages queue up and get through when voice calls won't. Text 601-337-1069 with your name, address, and what you're dealing with. We work our list in order of who's hurting worst: powered-down coolers full of product and buildings open to the weather come first.

Do you document storm damage work for insurance claims?

We photograph our work and provide itemized invoices, which most owners hand straight to their adjuster. We're not insurance adjusters and we won't pretend to be — but board-up, debris removal, and stabilization are the kind of reasonable emergency mitigation most policies expect you to do, and clean documentation makes that conversation easier.

Can one company really get my restaurant reopened after a storm?

That's the point of calling us instead of three different contractors. We can set temporary power, repair the refrigeration and cooking equipment, clear the trees off your parking lot, and haul the debris in our own dumpsters — one number, one crew, one invoice. Every day you're closed is revenue gone; we sequence the work so you're serving customers again as fast as the building allows.

What should my business do before hurricane season?

Three things. First, get your equipment serviced now — a walk-in limping through August will not survive a week of rough power. Second, sort out your generator plan before the storm has a name: what needs power, what size unit, where it connects. Third, save 601-337-1069 in your phone. The businesses that text us before landfall are the ones we can plan for.

Storm & Disaster Recovery — South Mississippi Gulf Coast