Like thousands of other flooded south Louisiana business owners, Chris Corley watched helplessly last week as rising water threatened the enterprise that feeds his family and those of his employees.

The financial losses at Shetler-Corley Motors in Crowley was $500,000 in ruined new and used vehicles, and $200,000 in damage to the showroom, offices and repair shop. And that's not counting the sales lost from being closed for more than a week.

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