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September 1, 2005
Hurricane Katrina
Disaster Recovery Stories
Posted by Laura Rich at 5:06 PM
Many Inc. readers are among those impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Some have been directly hit in their home-base of New Orleans, while others are being touched by Katrina's ever-growing tentacles.
Do you have a story to share? Please tell us how your business is responding to the after-effects of Hurricane Katrina.
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A casino we did business with is no more.
This is a message from beyond the dead zone. My company is up here in NY, Long Island to be exact. I just read the article of how your company is striving to keep some normalcy in a time of chaos. My God keep you strong!
The TV is showing the carnage and the termoil that you are all going through and I am happy to say that most people outside of the horror show are stepping up to do something. Long Island is as vunerable as the Gulf states and one fateful day it will be our turn to cry. I just hope we learn from this tragic experience and remember that we are human. Not numbers, not socal classes, not political parties but people that bleed, hurt, cry and love all the same.
May God have mercy on all of our souls.
After having evacuated numerous times over the years, all misses, we had developed a checklist that had evacuating down to a science. We all are safe, but unfortunately, we learned many things when the real one came to New Orleans. For example, all my staff exchanged cell numbers, but we learned that land lines worked much better. I should have told everyone to call me at my parents home as soon as they settled near a land line. I took with my my homeowners ins policy but didnt think about our company ins policy. I should have brought company checks. Things like that. The real shocker is, as we try to relocate, the HUGE real estate speculation that occurred in nearby dry cities. Speculators snapped up all the housing. It's like the gold rush. We may have to leave the state. I'd love to talk to an Inc. reporter....
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