Information: What Happens Indoors When Snow Melts
Information: What Happens Indoors When Snow Melts Areas with heavy snowfall know the snow will inevitably melt and the season of frigid temperatures, shoveling, scraping windshields, layering clothes, and seeing your breath will end… eventually. Even though it feels like it never will! But with that thaw and the snow melting comes a different kind ...
Dangers of Melting Snow Outside
Snow can be very beautiful, but most of us don’t want it to last too long. Aside from its beauty, it’s very cumbersome, it’s cold, and it’s wet. Well, once it melts, it’s equally as problematic. If temperatures are conducive, it can re-freeze and create sheets of ice on the ground making driving and walking ...
Cofferdams for Utility Line Work and Repair
When it comes time to make repairs to or replace in-ground utility lines, the work must then be done underneath the surface of the ground. It is an anticipated added level of difficulty for such work to not only deal with the lines themselves, but to also get to them through layers of dirt and ...
Record Breaking Water Related Events Throughout The World
Here are Dam-It Dams Cofferdams, we pay attention to all things weather and hydro-logically related. These are the most accurate record setting numbers available to us, as a vast majority of records set have been recorded post-1880. Any record weather occurrences prior to that time, which may or may not have been of greater note, ...
Current Storm Tracking
In the wake of more recent storms that have developed into strong and deadly hurricanes this 2018 hurricane season, comes Xavier. Xavier is expected to remain at Tropical Storm status until it devolves back to a Tropical Depression late into the night. Tropical Depression winds are less than 39 mph and Tropical Storm winds range ...
Idea – Pool Winterization with Cofferdams
Whether in-ground or above-ground, outdoor pool winterization and repairs are painstaking, to say the least! There is so much to do that you begin to wonder if all the upkeep and cleaning and chemicals and level-checks justify the owning of a pool. Then comes the exciting season where there’s a nip in the air and ...
Flood Related Deaths and Flood Protection
Floods are considered to be one of the most dangerous weather events we encounter, and the trend of deaths due to floods continues to go up in numbers that are deeply concerning. Though a good number of the deaths are directly related to unavoidable circumstances in the event of flooding, there is a notable amount ...
Types of Surface When Installing Cofferdams
Generally speaking, there are three different types of water conditions when it comes to construction and repair that could require the use of a cofferdam system by Dam-It Dams, Inc. Below we’ll provide descriptions for you, in order to help you better understand the various conditions. Dry Installation This condition is where there is no ...
Impacts and Risks of Climate Change
A new government report outlining the impacts to the United States of global warming/climate change warns of extreme weather disasters worsening in the US. After many forms of research were gathered and the data analyzed, new findings and information paired with existing data cite that not only is this expected, but the trend that will ...
Hurricane Willa and Tropical Storm Vicente
Hurricane Willa, a Category 4 hurricane in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, gained rapid intensification and elevated briefly to the status of Category 5 today, but deescalated quickly back to Cat 4. It is expected that Hurricane Willa will make landfall Tuesday night north of Puerto Vallarta, bringing an abundance of rain, as well as damaging ...