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August 06, 2006

Photo Essay Epilogue

Its now been a month since the flood waters had receded. Life is starting to show signs of being normal. But it has gotten unusually quiet. I'm not talking about sounds of construction and clean up. But instead the sounds of people. A lot of the renters home and business alike have moved or are moving. Leaving neighborhoods with only scattered families living there. Its eerie to go through a section of lower Sidney and only see people every so often — when it used to be that every house and apartment had someone living in it.

On the home front, I'm just getting to a point that I can dedicate full time back to the business of books. As you may have noticed the stock lists are starting to get some listings back into them.

But its been slow going. I've been working along side the contractors to help the work go quicker. Instead of working full time on the catalog of books. Well, I get tired of the electric cutting out because of bad wiring, I never want to take another cold shower in my life, and it was just yesterday that the rest of the old equipment from the basement was finally removed getting rid of most of the rest of a fuel oil smell in the basement.

So now the rebuilding can start.

Working from a home office has its advantages. But in cases like this, it also means that your disturbed a lot. And you get to a point where you just want it to be done and over with.

I finally got around to applying to FEMA for their grant money, only to get turned down and sent to the SBA. As I knew I would be. It was a joke, but they require that you have a paper-trail.

The SBA wanted to give me a loan. Another joke. As if I could pay for a loan having lost more than 70% of my stock to flood waters. And little to no sales as I try to rebuild here — the site, the office, the home....

It may take another month before things really settle, but at least normality is creeping back. A little more each day.

Posted by derstaffo at August 6, 2006 09:39 AM

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