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Discover CityViewNC.com's fresh updated look! | 9 McFadyen & Sumner, CPAs PA Certied Public Accountants 572 Executive Place, Fayetteville, NC • 910.323.3100 www.mscpas.com • facebook.com/mcfadyensumner Call McFadyen & Sumner! We're more than a leading edge CPA firm. In addition to our full range of accounting, tax and financial services, we offer special services including CFO-level support. As a valuable part of your management team, for businesses of all sizes, McFadyen & Sumner can serve as an "outsourced" CFO. Tailoring our services to meet your specific needs – in an efficient and cost-effective manner – we can provide expertise, oversight and hands-on solutions for these and other areas where you may need help: • Cash Flow Analysis • Profit Improvement • Debt Restructuring What sets McFadyen & Sumner apart is our ability and our commitment to work as a trusted partner for responsive, pro-active problem solving. And we look forward to partnering as your CFO to help you boost your business. To learn more, contact us at 910-323-3100. Helping you get the most from your business for your family. Need Expert, Cost-Effective CFO Support? • Managing Receivables • Forecasting • Strategic Planning While those personal stories are fun to recall now, they don't really do much justice to the real job of reporting on disasters like Floyd and Florence. ey certainly don't convey the experiences of those who suffer real loss. And they don't take full measure of the collective loss, and how to continue from it. As a journalist in those places of loss – whether it was traveling the flooded-out roads of Brunswick County aer Floyd and talking to those whose homes were sunken beneath a never-before-seen river tide or looking over a new inlet created by Isabel that would separate people from their homes for weeks – that was the job, telling the story of loss and then recovery from that loss. Aer seeing this latest storm do its best to drive people from the places that they love and call home, I can say that all those years covering other storms showed me how rarely that actually happens. So much about our common human experience ties us to the communities where we live. We become attached to place, to the land under our feet. Even drastic natural disasters don't easily rip apart that connection. It's why we re- build and restart. In my 20s, when I was a much younger man, one of my favorite albums includ- ed a song called "Aer the Flood." Flor- ence caused me to give it a listen again. It tells the same story that I saw in all those other storms. Aer the flood e land it washed away Felt like my flesh and blood I' d rather be shovelin' rough the slush and mud an to leave my home where I grew up Life goes on aer the flood Scott Mooneyham lives in Fayetteville and is married to CityView editor Catherine Pritchard. Bill McFadyen's column will return in CityView's next issue.

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