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Article: In La Plata, Quiet After the Storm; Businesses Ponder How Much to Pour Into Town's Future
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 4, 2002
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In the aftermath of the April 28 tornado that leveled La Plata,
the townspeople appeared to rise together as swiftly as their homes
and businesses had fallen.
While bulldozers labored to dig thousands of tons of debris from
the area, business owners and residents vowed that they would not
just rebuild their community -- they would make it better.
In those first days, La Plata appeared to all the world as the
little town that could. Tents and trailers called the "People's
Place" were set up to offer immediate assistance to victims. A local
construction company erected modular units to house some of the 100-
plus businesses displaced by the storm. Residents circulated bumper
stickers with ...
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