Storm Damage Repair in Davenport, IA
After a straight-line wind event, the damage keeping a house dark is usually its own equipment rather than the utility’s. The mast bends or tears away from the wall, the weatherhead comes down with the drop, and the meter socket gets pulled out of square. On a Davenport house every one of those parts belongs to the owner, and the power stays off until they are repaired and inspected.
What this means in Davenport
The sequence is fixed, and worth knowing before you call. MidAmerican Energy owns the drop and the meter, so they disconnect and they reconnect; everything from the meter inward is ours, meaning the mast, the entrance cable, the socket and whatever the water reached inside the panel. The city permit and the inspection sit between those two utility visits, and the permit is taken out by us as the licensed contractor. Trees are the other half of the story — Davenport carries a lot of mature canopy, and a limb heavy enough to take a drop down usually takes the mast with it.
Part of the electrical work we do in Davenport, IA, and of Storm Damage Repair across the Quad Cities.
Damage we get called out for
- Service masts pulled loose or bent over by a fallen limb or by the drop itself
- Weatherheads and entrance cable with the jacket torn open
- Meter sockets pulled off the wall or burned at the lugs
- Panels and outlets that went under water in a flooded basement
- Circuits taken out by a nearby strike, where the damage is not obvious
- Detached garage and outbuilding feeds broken by wind or falling trees
Storm Damage Repair in Davenport: questions
Who repairs the service mast on a Davenport house, the utility or an electrician?
An electrician. MidAmerican Energy’s responsibility stops at the drop and the meter; the mast, the weatherhead, the entrance cable and the socket belong to the house, and the repair is inspected before the utility will reconnect.
How quickly can you get to storm damage in Davenport?
Storm nights are the busiest we have, and we work them around the clock. Anything live, smoking or standing in water goes first, and for most Quad Cities calls we are on site within the hour.
My Davenport basement flooded — is the panel still safe?
Assume it is not. Breakers and busbars that have been submerged corrode from the inside and stop tripping the way they should, even after everything looks and feels dry. Flooded gear gets replaced rather than dried out and reused.
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