CLEVELAND, Tenn.
Kathy Earls grabbed empty boxes – some damp from rainwater – and began packing them with cleaning products, including counter sprays and bleach.
“We’re trying to salvage what we can like everyone else,” she said. “We don’t know what we’re going to do. I don’t have a clue what we’re going to do.”
The family owned business, A-1 Closeouts at 2256 Spring Place Road, sits in a strip mall, or what used to be one. The storms shredded the end of the building where A-1 Closeouts has operated for the past year.
Standing inside the store, overcast skies can be seen through a ceiling hole draped and decorated with insulation, ceiling tiles and warped metal.