July 28, 2026

Moving in the Rain in Dothan: Here's How We Keep Your Things Dry

Rain almost never cancels one of our moves. We work through light and moderate rain most weeks of the year we just change how we work: wrapping and staging inside your house, keeping your furniture under a roof instead of open sky, putting runners down on your floors, and loading into an enclosed trailer. The only things that make us stop are lightning, flooding, and high wind.

We’re The Moving Guys a family-owned crew out of Enterprise, Alabama, moving folks all over Dothan and the Wiregrass. And we’ll be honest with you about something: if we waited on perfect weather down here, we’d only work about eight months out of the year.

So instead of telling you not to worry about it, we’d rather show you what we actually do when the sky opens up and the few things we’d ask you to do on your end.

It Rained On us in the Garden District on May 12

We backed our trailer in off the street at a home in Dothan’s Garden District that morning with the grass already soaked, the pines dripping, and that flat grey Wiregrass sky that tells you it isn’t finished yet.

Nobody called to reschedule. Here’s how we ran the day:

We made the trailer the dry room. We backed in close to the house and dropped the rear ramp so the ramp sat under the trailer’s own roofline. Your dresser goes from a covered doorway into a covered trailer. Total time under open sky: about four feet’ worth.

We wrapped everything inside the house. Blankets and shrink wrap go on in your living room, where it’s dry. Wrapping a piece of furniture out in the rain just seals water against the finish so we don’t do it in the yard, ever.

Nothing got set down on wet ground. No boxes staged in the grass. No nightstand parked in the driveway “just for a second.” Wet cardboard loses most of its strength, and a soaked box bottom is exactly how a box of your grandmother’s dishes ends up on the pavement.

We protected the floors at both houses. Runners down the main path, old towels at every threshold, boots wiped between trips. That mattered extra here Garden District homes have original heart pine and hardwood that water-stains, and plaster walls that don’t forgive a wet blanket dragged along them.

We worked in a relay instead of a sprint. Two of us carrying, one man staying at the trailer door to receive, position, and strap. Trailer door shut between loads. It’s slower than a dry-day pace, and that’s on purpose.

We figured out the parking before we touched a box. Those tree-lined streets and narrow historic drives don’t give a big truck much room to swing in. Because our trailer unhooks, we can spot it close to the door and pull the truck out of the way completely that’s often the difference between a 15-foot carry and a 90-foot carry in the rain.

Nothing showed up wet. Nothing showed up broken. Those floors looked the same at 4 p.m. as they did when we knocked on the door that morning.

That’s not a hero story. That’s just the job done right on a wet day.

Why We Run Enclosed Trailers

Here’s something most people don’t realize: on a rainy move, the damage usually doesn’t happen while your things are being carried. It happens while they’re waiting sitting on an open ramp, staged in a driveway, or riding in something that isn’t sealed up.

That’s why we run enclosed transport. Your belongings are inside a hard-sided, weather-sealed trailer from the second they leave your door until they get to the new one. No tarps flapping loose, no straps out in the weather, no surprise pop-up storm halfway to Enterprise or Marianna.

It’s also why we can take on the pieces a lot of companies turn down when it’s wet gun safes, hot tubs, swim spas, pianos, and commercial kitchen equipment. You can’t shrink-wrap a 700-pound safe like a nightstand, so the trailer has to do the protecting for you. That’s our hard-to-move items work, and we do a lot of it.

When We'll Call You and Say "Let's Wait"

We’re not going to pretend weather never wins. We’ll pause or move your date for:

Lightning close enough to be a threat no piece of furniture is worth one of our guys or one of your family members getting hurt
Standing water or flash flooding in the drive or on the route
High wind a moving blanket turns into a sail and a trailer door turns into a hazard fast
Severe weather warnings anywhere in Houston, Dale, or Coffee County

Light rain, we work. Steady rain, we work slower and wrap more. Anything that puts a person at risk, and you’ll hear from us before we load a single box — not after.

Five Things We'd Ask You To Do the Night Before

You don’t have to do much. But these five things make a wet move go a whole lot smoother, and we tell every customer the same list:

Move your fragile and irreplaceable stuff into plastic bins. Documents, photo albums, electronics, linens. Bins wipe dry cardboard doesn’t.
Clear us one dry staging spot. A garage, carport, or covered porch. Point it out when we get there.
Set old towels by every outside door at both houses. Cheapest thing you can possibly do for your floors.
Pack yourself a dry bag change of clothes, a towel, your phone charger. Trust us, you’ll want it.
Tell us about the heavy or awkward stuff when you book. The safe, the piano, the aquarium, the hot tub. We’d rather plan for it than meet it for the first time standing in the rain.