Name: Powers Hardware stocks sandbags during high-water concerns, 2020
Start: 2020-10-05
End: 2020-10-05
Location: Beaver Island

Powers Hardware stocks sandbags during high-water concerns, 2020

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TypeEvent

Date2020-10-05

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 2020-10-05
Kind: Business notice
Where: place/powers-hardware
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: businesspublic-serviceshorelinewater-levels
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On October 5, 2020, Powers Hardware announced that it had stocked sandbags and might return them off-island because no customers had expressed interest.

Evidence limits

This is a first-party business notice. It records availability and reported demand at that moment, but does not establish the island-wide severity of any high-water problem or whether sandbags were later sold or used.

Sources

Jeff Powers, “Sandbags at the Hardware,” Beaver Island Forum, October 5, 2020.
Powers Hardware reported stocking sandbags but receiving no interest and said it would return them off-island unless residents requested them. This first-party inventory notice documents an offered preparedness supply, not a measured demand, flood emergency, or completed distribution.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Powers Hardware stocks sandbags during high-water concerns, 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-powers-hardware-sandbags-stocked-2020/, accessed [date], citing Jeff Powers, “Sandbags at the Hardware,” Beaver Island Forum, October 5, 2020..

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