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>> drive, ron and melissa alford head out to survey the scene. >> he welcomed us in and really said the magic words that fix it people love to hear, like ron and myself, which is will you please help me. please, help mow. >> and what at the find shocks even a team of experienced professionals. >> this place was one word, abysmal. you had to push the door open with your shoulder to get it open. and enthis you walked around sideways like this to slip in. just get in. and from there, there was just...

Steam coming out from the methane gas from all the organic material. >> this stuff was rotting. creating heat. >> what i saw would make anybody want to vomit. you didnt know if you were looking at a dead possum or if you were looking at just old food. i mean, it was just unrecognizable. >> the alfords realized that years of dropping food onto the floor had actually created a new higher floor. >> they eat like this and they watch the tv and when theyre done they throw this one here and that one t...

Home. >> its at the far end of the house. ive separated myself off from the house with a heavy duty shower curtain and baby gate to keep the barrier between myself and the rest of the house. i keep everything in my room now, all my personal belongings because if i leave them out theyll get destroyed and they will get destroyed very quickly. either stuff will get put on top of it and it will get crushed. her pets might get hold of it or destroy it. things will get dirty. >> the pets also contribu...

Sick cats. there was a large barn that also had cages and cages of cats. off of that barn were some pens with cats in them. you know, there was a trailer with cats. then come around the other side of the house, theres other pens with cats. >> deputy manager of cruelty investigations is and senior field responder rowdy shaw join them on the rescue. >> anyone that looks at a situation like that would almost immediately wonder how somebody could care for that many animals. your immediate thought wa...

Result, the pipes broke. we were wearing boots above the knees to get through that stuff because the clothing and things there was absolutely disgusting. >> for 13 days the team digs their bay through the rotting garbage, hardened candle wax and stacks of debris. they fill five, 20 foot long dumpsters. >> i didnt think it was ever going to get done. we recould haved that house. the place got cleaned out completely. they put it on the market. we got there just in time. hoarding is a serious dis...

>> it takes ten times more work and effort to do simple things than it should take. to take a shower, you have to get all your stuff from your bedroom, make sure you have your flip-flops on, step over your baby gate, walk to the other end of the house. i dont walk around bare foot. i dont want stuff on my feet. it just flat-out grosses me out. to cook anything, i have to go to my fridge in my room, get everything i needed, get all my utensils and bring it into the kitchen to prepare my food, the...

Grocery store, anywhere, you bring it home. it was all there. >> and a lot of paperwork. peep have a huge problem with what to do with paper. >> the crew begins carefully sifting through the debris, room by room. >> we dont take the snow shovels and haul the stuff into the trash can. we go through everything. were looking for stocks and bonds and birth certificates and things like that. >> the removal takes a seven person crew three days to complete. >> we left him in really good shape. >> the c...

But with a hoarder, its just not that simple. >> you dont move stuff. she would be very hurt. first of all, shed be angry. shed be hurt at the disrespect to her and her things. shed be ashamed. it would be kind of like her worst fears coming true right then and there. it would just make the problem worse because it would make her more defensive of everything else and would make her fight harder to keep it. >> dr. morrison has not treated jessicas mother but has dealt with many similar cases. >> ...

Allison kosik has the latest on the wild winter weather. >> reporter: the calendar says spring but mother nature is playing by her own rules, dumping about a foot of snow in parts of new hampshire on the last day of winter. >> its kind of fun because then you can shovel and work out. >> reporter: in concord it looked more like december than march. >> its new england. this is what we get in new england. im happy. im leaving to go skiing on friday. >> reporter: the deep snow across the northeast i...

You can shovel and work out. >> reporter: in concord it looked more like december than march. >> its new england. this is what we get in new england. im happy. im leaving to go skiing on friday. >> reporter: the deep snow across the northeast is taxing on snow plows and backs. >> its very heavy. you know, underneath, especially when you get toward the street like a puddle of water underneath everything. so its hard to throw it. >> reporter: late winter storms are not just affecting new england. ...