Flagpole installation inTuscaloosa, AL

Flagpoles in Tuscaloosa

A university and hospital city on the Black Warrior River, with a car assembly plant and its suppliers out to the east of it. We cover Tuscaloosa and the Tuscaloosa County area, including the University of Alabama campus and Bryant-Denny Stadium, the Strip, downtown and Greensboro Avenue, the Druid City historic district, DCH Regional Medical Center, the Riverwalk, Northport across the river and the Mercedes-Benz plant at Vance.

Wind here. Tuscaloosa sits in an inland, Fall Line area, which works out to roughly 110 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. The Fall Line runs through Tuscaloosa, and that is why the ground changes as you cross the river: rock and coal-measure sandstone on the north bank, sandy Coastal Plain on the south, so a hole that augers clean on one side can want a wider footing on the other. Tornadoes are the other thing people here ask about, and the honest answer is that the mapped wind speed does not cover them. That number describes straight-line wind. The tornado load map added to the current edition of the standard is a separate one and applies to hospitals, schools and other essential buildings rather than to ordinary ones, and nobody publishes a flag-flying rating that stands up to the sort of tornado that crossed the city on 27 April 2011. What we can do is size to the adopted figure for the address, set the footing for what is actually under it, and fit hardware that lets you get the flag down quickly when a warning is out. In the Druid City district the Historic Preservation Commission issues the certificate of appropriateness for exterior work, and that comes before the permit.

Most of the people who call us from Tuscaloosa are university and school buildings, the hospital and its medical offices, fraternity and sorority houses, manufacturing and supplier plants, churches, city and county buildings and downtown commercial frontage.