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said, be lost job alter job. Graves said he saw his business decline from more than 50 jobs a week to just a few more than five.
He said it was about midsummer when he started seeing the effects of the drought.
“If I wanted to mow and mow dust, 1 could mow all day long* he said.
And the rain that he needed never came.
“When you go just about four months without receiving any money from any clients because you’re not mowing any grass, you know...,* he said “It went too long for me to pull myself hack up out of it*
Graves said that on top of the drought, a shaky building market further cut away at his client base.
“The people started losing their jobs arid I started losing
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