Jack Stephens
Jack Stephens
banking companies
We are consistently one of the fastest-growing banking companies in Virginia.
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We started to get sucked under the barge. Luckily, a deck hand cut us loose and we popped out of the water like a cork.
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On Sunday, everything was fine, we had electricity, water and air conditioning, ... On Monday, we lost electricity. By Tuesday the water was coming in through the holes in the roof, the electricity and air conditioning were off and toilets were beginning to back up. People were getting frustrated.
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One of the things this system offers is redundancy, and so if one tower goes down, there will be another that will pick up the communications and that you can patch into.
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People are shocked by what they're seeing and this is the least impacted area, ... It's only going to get worse.
This will get us out of the hole,
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I never felt threatened and I walked around the entire place, ... I was talking to people, administering first aid. But people were ready to get out of there. The conditions were horrid and horrible. The stench was unbearable. If we had electricity, it would have been so much better.
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You can imagine the extraordinary force that a billion gallons of water has coming over these levees, ... It happened on a seven-mile stretch simultaneously.
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You are not prepared for what you are going to see because of the massive devastation and the chaos, and you are not prepared for the grief of those who might have lost everything,
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Fishermen have been selling their land to sportsmen for years, ... The storm is only going to speed that up by giving people another reason to leave.
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(Katrina) was a killer; it cost lives, and it resulted in untold suffering amongst our local population and the entire region, really.
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They have no place to live; they're separated from their families; and they don't know how much longer they'll have a job, ... We have to give them some reason to stick it out.
beginning business fun major
It was fun in the beginning. Now it's a major chore. But if I weren't doing it, I would have been out of business years ago.
asked dog
I would not have even asked my dog to live in there,