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Odachowski said. “That means opening up retail stores, food stores, gas stations and schools.”Locally, Haltom City-based Blackmon Mooring already has 10 tractor-trailers in the Houston area and 300 employees on site from its offices in Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin and Oklahoma City. So far, the floodwaters have prevented any restoration work from getting started, said spokeswoman Kelly Campbell.Crews aren’t just headed to Houston.Related stories from Star-TelegramJeff Stokes, owner of a ServPro franchise in North Richland Hills, was headed to Port Aransas Monday as part of the company’s disaster recovery teams.ServPro’s North Richland Hills franchise will be sending crews and equipment, including this 53-foot tractor-trailer to the Port Aransas area this week. Kristi Stokes ServPro of North Richland Hills Other crews will follow once they’re able to start working, said Stokes, who also owns the Denton franchise.“We’ll be dealing with hotels, strip shopping centers and other businesses,” Stokes said. “We’re staging equipment in San Antonio and in Garland. Depending on the job, we could there from two weeks to three months.”Companies are planning for the long haul.“We’ll probably have Christmas trees in our RV’s,” Odachowksi said. “I can pretty much guarantee that.”... (Fort Worth Star Telegram)
July and run through December, according to a joint legal brief filed in late July.Last December, Haltom City, Texas-based BMS CAT sued the Justice companies, saying it had not been paid for work performed cleaning up and restoring portions of The Greenbrier properties, including golf courses, the resort’s chapel, a ballroom and poolroom, the pro shop, grounds and buildings of the Old White Inn, and gold course out buildings, that were damaged by the June 2016 flood.The lawsuit said that BMS CAT sent an invoice on Aug. 11, 2016, for more than $880,000. As of the filing of the lawsuit on Dec. 8, the only payment that had been received was $113,000 for work related to cleanup at the Greenbrier Sporting Club, the lawsuit stated.The dispute with BMS CAT was raised during Justice’s gubernatorial campaign by his Republican opponent, Bill Cole, when BMS CAT, in October 2016, filed mechanic’s liens over the debt. Justice has a history of unpaid taxes, coal-mine safety fines and other debts, and his family’s coal operations continue to run up bills for unpaid coal severance taxes. Justice has said he was turning over day-to-day operations of The Greenbrier to his daughter, but the resort was not among the properties listed to be included in a blind trust approved by the state Ethics Commission.On July 25, lawyers for both sides in the case asked U.S. District Judge Irene Berger to put the matter on hold. They said a settlement had been reached, but asked Berger to keep the case on her docket “for purposes of enforcing the terms of the settlement without having to file a separate civil matter.”Berger, in an order issued Aug. 3, said that if the settlement agreeme... (Charleston Gazette-Mail (subscription))
