Amid Harvey recovery, small businesses roll up sleeves and get back to work
Even for a farmer, there is such a thing as too much water.
Sweat dripping from under his red, white, and blue cowboy hat, Guy Mouelet is standing in his farm at the corner of Fondren Road and Willowbend Boulevard here, taking a break between giant hacks with his shovel at the tangled green weeds that have overrun his eggplant bed. He recalls not thinking too much of hurricane Harvey before it broadsided Houston with days of torrential rain.
“I thought maybe it will be a little rain and it will pass, but after four days, when I came back and saw the water, water everywhere,” says Mr. Mouelet, his voice trailing off.
It will take “a couple of months” to get his farm back to pre-Harvey crop volumes, but now is the time to
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