Waiting out the disaster with a drink
By Campbell Robertson | China Daily | Updated: 2011-05-29 08:00
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At Strick's bar, the only business still open in Eagle Lake, the 15 regulars stayed behind as floodwaters rose. James Patterson for The New York Times |
EAGLE LAKE, Mississippi - On the lakefront sits a low metal building, Strick's. It is the only business still open in Eagle Lake. And starting at 2 o'clock every afternoon and running into the evening, every person in town can be found here. All 15 of them.
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