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Fort Myers Beach residents and business owners fear rebuilding after Ian
Fort Myers Beach residents Chase Hussey and Erica Racz are worried their town will never be the same following the destruction brought by Hurricane Ian. Before rebuilding their home and businesses, they said the community needs to be restored. Hussey and Racz’s single-story home in the Palm Isles neighborhood — two miles from the beach — was almost 8 feet underwater after Ian’s storm surge pounded Southwest Florida a month ago. Their three businesses — West Coast Pressure Cleaning, Paradise Sailing and Ranalli Parasailare — remain closed until further notice. “As much as we’d love to go out there and fly parasails around in the sky, there’s things to do,…
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Why Philadelphia small business owners are suffering while those in Ft. Myers are thriving
“If I at any time see you doing that once more, sir, I’m likely to not only talk to you to go away the keep but you will not be authorized to shop listed here again.” That was a supervisor at my local grocery store in Philadelphia speaking to me just a handful of months in the past. Though searching I received an significant get in touch with, and I spoke on the cellphone with my mask pulled down below my chin so I wouldn’t be muffled. The manager observed this and confronted me about it. I was donning a cloth mask, which as we know by now are largely…