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<br />SCRIPT-TASK G. TEMPORARY BUSINESS LOCATIONS <br />(You have 5 minutes to read the script.) <br /> <br />Slide Gl. Task G. Temporary Business Locations <br /> <br />In Task G, you will select facilities and sites for temporary business locations. <br />Businesses that cannot open their doors soon after a flood usually fail, losing clients to <br />competing businesses-often in other jurisdictions. Quickly providing a place where <br />displaced businesses can set up shop can help prevent business failures and allow <br />businesses to provide necessary goods and services to the community during recovery. <br /> <br />Slide G2. Flooded retail street in Georgia <br /> <br />Not all damaged businesses will needed new locations. Many, like these stores flooded <br />in Georgia in 1994, will be able to clean up and reopen quickly, if only on the sidewalk. <br />Local government can help this process by quickly removing mud and debris so that <br />commercial streets can be opened. <br /> <br />Slide G3. Flooded businesses along the Russian River, Guerneville, California <br /> <br />If you look closely you will see the tops of a sign and light standards belonging to a gas <br />station in Guemeville, California during the January 1995 flood on the Russian River. <br />This commercial area is in obvious trouble. <br /> <br />Slide G4. Businesses operating from trailer in Guerneville, California <br /> <br />Here is the same location a month later. The owner installed a temporary building to <br />house the gas station, deli and mini-market and was back in business about two weeks <br />after the flood. Workers are replacing floors, wallboard, and wiring in the flooded <br />building shown on the right and the owners expect to reoccupy it in another month. <br /> <br />Slide G5. Flood sale in Guerneville, California <br /> <br />Here we see a parking lot, also in Guerneville, being used by local merchants as a <br />makeshift outdoor market. Sometimes a community has vacant commercial space or <br />land that can be used temporarily for displaced businesses. Cities can work with local <br />business associations and property owners to identify sites that might be used <br />temporarily by displaced businesses. <br /> <br />Slide G6. Portable janitor in Montpelier, Vermont <br /> <br />You also may need to provide space for businesses coming into the community to help <br />with recovery. This is a "portable janitor" set up in a park in Montpelier, Vermont in <br />1992 to help people clean up after a flood. <br /> <br />Script-Task G <br />