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'It was all underwater': Iowa native living in Florida loses video game business

'It was all underwater': Iowa native living in Florida loses video game business
THE CATEGORY FOUR STORM AND I ONE WHO MOVED TO THE FORT MYERS AREA AFTER COLLEGE IS NOW THINKING ABOUT COMING BACK BECAUSE OF THIS HURRICANE. HE STARTED A BUSINESS RESELLING VINTAGE AND MODERN VIDEO GAMES, BUT NOW IT’S ALL GONE. IT WAS ALL UNDERWATER. SO WHEN I GOT THERE, IT WAS. I GOT THERE THE NEXT MORNING WHEN THE SUN CAME UP AND THERE WAS PROBABLY 20% OF WHAT I HAD LEFT IN THE BUILDING. AND PEOPLE WERE WALKING BY AND THEY WERE SAYING THAT THERE WAS. MY GAMES WERE LIKE A MILE EAST IN A MILE WEST OF THE STORAGE, JUST EVERYWHERE. ONE OF JASON CRUSHERS, CUSTOMER HAS CREATED A GO FUND ME PAGE FOR HIM. HE’S BEEN THROUGH TWO HURRICANES NOW IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS. KCCI HELD A PHONE BANK FUNDRAISER THROUGH THE RED CROSS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HURRICANE IAN. THANKS TO VIEWERS LIKE YOU, WE WERE ABLE TO RAISE MORE THAN $15,000. WHAT IF YOU HEAD TO OUR WEBSITE OR APP? RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A LINK WHERE YOU CAN DONATE TO THE RED CROSS. YOU CAN STILL DO IT. JUST GO TO KCCI DOT COM OR DOWNLOAD OR DOWNLOAD THE KCCI APP AT THE APPLE A
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'It was all underwater': Iowa native living in Florida loses video game business
An Iowan who moved to the Fort Myers area after college is now thinking about coming back home because of the hurricane.Jason Crosser started a business reselling vintage and modern video games. But now it's all gone, KGAN reports."It was all underwater,” Crosser said. “I got there the next morning when the sun came up, and there was probably like 20% of what I had left in the building, and people were walking by, and they were saying that there my games were like a mile east and a mile west of the store, just everywhere."One of Crosser's customers has created a GoFundMe page for him.He's been through two hurricanes in the last five years.

An Iowan who moved to the Fort Myers area after college is now thinking about coming back home because of the hurricane.

Jason Crosser started a business reselling vintage and modern video games. But now it's all gone, KGAN reports.

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"It was all underwater,” Crosser said. “I got there the next morning when the sun came up, and there was probably like 20% of what I had left in the building, and people were walking by, and they were saying that there my games were like a mile east and a mile west of the store, just everywhere."

One of Crosser's customers has created a GoFundMe page for him.

He's been through two hurricanes in the last five years.