Shore communities feel the first wave of impact from the oil spill. More
Everything is now "before Katrina" or "after Katrina" -- unless he's talking about during Katrina, when the roof blew off his office and most of his properties were flooded or suffered severe wind damage. "I wasn't prepared -- no one thought anything like this would happen," says Jonathan Wallick (Big50 1990). Facing financial difficulties during the early '90s, Wallick pared down his remodeling business and began acquiring rental properties, a mix of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings that his three-person company renovates and maintains. More