Coming back
Becky Boswell Smith -- Home Accents Today, 9/1/2005
One thought keeps recurring in my mind: What possible value can I add to the reams of paper already printed about Hurricane Katrina and, yet, how can I write about anything else?
Like other Americans, people in our industry are first checking on people we know whose homes and businesses were in the devastating reach of the storm and offering thanks when we hear they're OK. We're offering warehouse space, hauling in gasoline and taking victims into our homes.
From a distance, we're sending money, shoes, shirts and shampoo. Furniture retailers and manufacturers are collecting new, returned, damaged and close-out furnishings to ship to victims as they rebuild. Home accent stores and department stores are supporting their workers who no longer have work to go to. For details on what many in our industry are doing, as well as ways you can participate, check our stories on page 86.
The message I like most comes from a couple of Mississippi manufacturers and importers. One said of the loss of several containers: "We'll just move on." The other said their loss is not as great as others and the best news is "we'll be in High Point."
With the determination and guts Americans are known for, I believe we will move on, we will be at High Point and we will watch New Orleans become the Comeback Kid of 2005.
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