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Miguel Pompa
Imagine returning to your lumberyard after a vacation in Europe and discovering your headquarters had taken on six feet of water, storage sheds lost their roofs, lumber was scattered across neighbors' lots, and all your forklifts and pickup trucks were destroyed. That's the scene that faced Miguel Pompa, co-owner of Ideal Lumber Co. in Galveston, Texas, and the subject of the "My Yardsticks" feature in ProSales' October issue. He came home several days after Hurricane Ike struck his barrier island community.
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