Tomorrow, a business that was a local fixture even before Mike and Kim Stapp purchased it in 2000 is celebrating its grand reopening.
Stapp Automotive Repair, voted “Best Auto Repair in North Georgia” by readers of the Chattanooga Times Free Press in January, was hammered when a tornado slammed Ringgold on April 27.
From left, Stapp Automotive Repair employees Bill Beagan and Dakota Young, owners Kim and Mike Stapp and employee Josh Beagan show off the new repair shop.“We’d closed at 6 p.m. and everyone had gone home,” Kim Stapp said.
About two hours later, Ringgold was turned inside out and upside down.
Stapp said she and her husband “drove down here about 15 minutes after the storm and thought we’d been lucky.”