Today in Global Small Business: Storms Battering the Midwest

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• At least eight people have died from a storm system that has upended the Midwest and portions of the Mid-Atlantic over the past week, displacing people in several states and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes.
• Tropical storm Lala is sending drenching rain and winds across Hawaii.
• The flooding continued in Central Indiana Aug. 15 as water from days of rain continues to make its way downstream into Indianapolis.
• Quote of the week: “This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands." – Barack Obama
• Over 2,300 customers are without power in Franklin County (Columbus, OH) following another round of severe weather over the weekend.
• Why are the same [Chicago] suburbs being hit by tornadoes and storms? Meteorologist explains.

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