Augusta tree companies continue tree removal more than 8 months since Helene

Yahoo

10-06-2025

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Storm cleanup continues around the CSRA more than eight months since Hurricane Helene hit our area.
Local tree companies are staying busy cutting the last fallen trees and removing those that are at risk of falling.
Driving through Augusta neighborhoods, you're still seeing trees in yards and root balls that have yet to be cut—and tree companies like Removify are taking notice.
'You know, 8 months later, and we still have uprooted stumps that have not been taken care of yet. Whether that be people not really caring about it at the moment, or not wanting to spend money on it. Whatever the case may be, every now and again we're still doing a portion of a job that came from the storm,' said owner Matthew Turner.
Turner says tree cleanup and removal since September has been the biggest task for his company since he started 4 years ago.
Business has slowed down, but the phone calls are still rolling in.
'Some days we just do 1 job depending on how big it is, and other days we'll do 4. There's only so many hours in the day, and a lot of the things we do are really technical and tedious,' Turner said.
The same fallen trees they're cutting are still leaving their mark on homes around Augusta.
Roofing companies like RCS Roofing are also staying busy as some homes are still covered in tarps.
'We're still doing about 2 a day. Of course, we try to take care of the people in emergency types of situations like tarps. Or, if they have a hole in their house or something like that, we have to get it covered,' said manager Scott Gunter.
Helene has also left plenty of leaning trees that are at risk of falling.
As the 2025 hurricane season is underway, experts want you to take note of those trees to protect your home.
'If you've got a half fallen tree that came from the storm, if it poses any threat as far as distance to the house, that'd be something that I would want to get taken out sooner than later. It's going to fall at some point, it's just a matter of when,' said Turner.
'If you take a look around, you see leaning trees everywhere—-and those are fragile,' Gunter said. 'If the wind comes, they're going to go. I saw tops fall off just in the last week, so it's something to be careful of.'
When the hurricane hit, many homeowners took it upon themselves to work together cutting trees.
While storm cleanup is in the home stretch, Turner recommends you to call experts like him instead to cut and remove fallen trees properly and safely.
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