Gazette.Net: Federal disaster help for flooding leaves Prince George's residents high and dry

More than a month after the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee left much of downtown Upper Marlboro underwater, Frank Kline is still afraid his business might drown.

When Kline's business, Marlboro Blueprint and Office Supplies, flooded from Sept. 7 to 9, his blueprint-making equipment was destroyed, leaving him with a $1.25 million loss and forcing him to send all of his blueprint orders to his other branches in Waldorf and Lexington Park.

“It's taken its toll on me,” Kline said. “If you look at the money coming in versus the money going out; it was already bad enough because of the economy, and this really put a pinch on it.”