Jim Snoddy, co-owner of Snoddy’s Store, walks along the unlit store aisles. Once full shelves now stand empty with tags helpfully pointing out nonexistent products. The lights remain off and the glass doors that once stood at the entrance of the store were removed, leaving only metal security bars that more resemble an entrance to a prison cell. The current Snoddy’s building was completed in 1993, the same year of the flood that inundated the original Snoddy’s located a short distance away. The new building featured flood walls built into the store itself as a means of protecting it from future floods; however, the water that inundated Snoddy’s three months ago came not from outside but through the store’s drains, rising over two feet before receding.
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