Booksellers' Business Battered by Hurricane Isabel
In the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel, which first hit North Carolina on Thursday, September 18, flooding neighborhoods dozens of miles inland, and then moved north through Virginia and Washington, D.C., booksellers are assessing damage and working towards getting business back to normal as quickly as possible. Though it lost strength as it came inland, the hurricane was still the strongest to hit the Atlantic Coast since Hurricane Floyd in 1999. As of Tuesday, September 23, many areas were still without power.