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This year it seems there has been no part of the country that has been saved weather disasters. Most of them have included flooding in one way or another. While wind and rain is one thing, and can do plenty of damage, there is little more damaging to a home and it's belongings than flooding.

If you have been in the area where flooding has occurred, you may have found yourself stacking sandbags by the doors of your house to keep the water outside, but you may have forgotten one area of your home, the patio.

Most people expect their patio furniture to get wet. After all, it's built to be outside and deal with water, wind and elements, but patio furniture is not meant to take on constant water through all its parts, as happens in a flood.

Before A Flood

If you are paying attention to the weather reports when bad weather is coming your way, and you hear there are flash floods or flash flood watches, you may want to try and prepare for the bad weather by not only sandbagging your home, but also bringing your patio furniture inside.

After a Flood

If you couldn't get your furniture in on time or didn't realize the threat it was facing, you may find yourself looking out the window at your patio furniture partially or completely submerged. You may be thinking 'It'll be ok, it's just water and once the waters go down it will dry out, right?" Wrong.

While the water that is causing a flood may have come from the sky, by the time it flows into your yard, and soaks into your patio furniture, it is no longer just rain water. Consider a mixture of sewage, dead animals, and various other bacteria and parasites floating along through your yard. That is essentially what floodwaters are.

If you're whole street is underwater and the water is backing into your yard that means the sewage drains are completely full, flooding and backing up into this flowing dark water, along with everything else that the water touches as it travels.

When the waters finally subside things may start drying out, but all that dirt, waste and those parasites and bacteria are still there, now inside your patio furniture making a new home for them.

Thorough Cleaning

What your patio furniture will need is a complete and thorough cleaning.

When you go to do the cleaning, make sure to wear protective clothing (gloves and boots if there is still a lot of water around).

If you have any cuts or scratches that are exposed, you will want to avoid allowing any of the floodwaters to get into these wounds.

You need to use detergent to clean everything. Start with the hard surfaces on your patio furniture such as the tables and chair frames. Clean them using hot water and any type of household detergent. When it comes to the cushions and any other fabric items, you need to put them in the washing machine, if you can, on hot and using ample detergent.

After you have finished the cleanup of your patio furniture, don't forget to wash the clothes you used to do the clean up in a hot water solution as well to make sure you have gotten rid of the last of the contaminants.