Hurricane Dean barrels towards Mexico after battering the eastern Caribbean.
Whenever there is a hurricane that reaches a Category 5 like Dean, the news tends to focus on the weather, the flooding, and the general destruction. What gets left out, much of the time, is the impact on the hundreds of small businesses that are left crippled when this type of a storm blows through.
This is from a story on Caribbean360.com:
The entire banana crop of the island has been wiped out, 70% of the sugar cane planations gone and the southern part of the island, which was exposed to the strongest winds of the hurricane, was "totally devastated".
People are without electricity, water, telephone, and food. People are said to be looting stores and bakeries.
Workers from power utility companies in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and France have arrived to help restore electricity to the 60% of the island.
There is widespread flooding and almost every road is blocked by fallen trees and other debris.
Whenever you read about a hurricane or other natural disaster, take a moment to remember the small businessperson - like you - who is left wondering what they'll do next to keep their entrepreneurial dream alive...
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