We’re getting our first look tonight at 1:00 Pasco County business that was hit the hardest by hurricane her mean his ABC Action News reporter Michael paluska shows us a roller skating rink is the worst place for floodwaters to hit this is what 250 thousand dollars worth of waterlogged wood looks like they’ve been
Ripping this stuff out it’s extremely heavy all day today the owner says the county isn’t doing enough to protect his business from rising floodwaters employees at spin Nations family Skating Center in Port Richey spent their Labor Day in a hot humidity filled skate rink which is why our lens kept fogging up
Piling wood 18,000 square feet of hard wood about 7,000 yards of carpet you got to cut the walls out replace all the doors owner Jim Boulais bought the rink nearly 20 years ago and since then he’s been flooded 10 times recently though things have gotten worse since 2012
We’ve had three total wipeouts this is the rink during last year’s flood he did a complete remodel now he has to do it all over again a year later if we don’t open in two months it’ll be 80 plus Blaine knows his 12 employees will take a financial hit as
Well so he’s paying them for all of their hard work clearing out the debris another year another remodel balay says could have been avoided not angry but I’m really disappointed in in the county I mean when it happens one time okay it happens a second time start looking how
It happened a third time so how long to clean up this mess the owner hopes to be up and running by October in less than two months we’re in Pasco County michael paluska ABC Action News
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