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Article: RVs, Satellite Phones in Demand; Small Industries Selling Out Across the South as Orders Pour In
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- The Washington Post
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- September 5, 2005
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A natural gas company in Texas begged for it. So did a Louisiana
electric utility and a German television crew, which said cost was no
object. But in the end, the 38-foot motor home was rented to a man
from California who needed it to house his stricken relatives outside
New Orleans.
"People were pretty desperate," said the RV's owner, Lynn Lincecum
of Fairbanks, La., who rents his $150,000 Coachman Sportscoach, with
a flat-screen TV and ice maker, for $350 a day.
After wreaking economic destruction across the Gulf Coast,
Hurricane Katrina has created a boomlet for small industries such as
RV dealers and satellite phone sellers whose products are far from
staples of disaster relief.
Motor ...