Hurricane, flood can't stop Galveston shop

摘要

Richard Bloom is a case in raw determi nation. He was in the process of making some major improvements to his shop, Wud Cabinetry in Galveston, Texas, and had just invested $15,000 in new equip ment. Then Hurricane Ike hit the island. Both his home and his shop were devastated. "There were trees in the street and mud everywhere," he says. The water level reached 82 inches high in the shop, and the mud on the shop floor was % inch thick, he recalls.