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Article: Workshop to Help Tallahassee, Fla., Businesses Cope with Flooding.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- July 25, 2001
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By Rachel Sams, Tallahassee Democrat, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 25--Years ago, heavy rains in Tallahassee meant flooding at the Watkins Engineers & Constructors building on Airport Drive. Tropical storms brought deluges that sent employees' cars floating out of the parking lot and left the company's payroll computer under 2 feet of water.
The two or three major floods at the Airport Drive building cost the company more than $400,000, officials estimate. Since then, the business has done two things to prevent that from happening again -- Watkins moved to a new location on Maryland Circle and developed a disaster plan.
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