Mold in homes after Hurricane Sally: What is it? What does it do? What can be done? - Pensacola News Journal
CLOSE Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide After the storm, comes the mold. Floods, rain, no power, no air conditioning and Florida heat create prime and perfectly-moistened conditions for mold to spawn anew. And after Hurricane Sally, mold has grown fast and wild in Pensacola. Neither businesses nor homes have been spared. Most structures that sustained intense water damage last week quickly developed mold colonies. Mold is potentially dangerous to humans and it's recommended you get it completely removed from your house as soon as possible. As the colloquialism goes, “Get-it, gone.” “You want to minimize your risk against those spores, especially this year,” Theodore Fox, a mold expert, told the News Journal. “You can get an infection from mold spores that’s going to weaken your body enough that you might get a coinfection with COVID-19. "So this year," he added, "it is a very important issue to think about."...