Downtown thrift store inventory wiped out by rain

Furnishings on Marion loses about $200K worth of goods.

  • Buck Strickland (from left) and Linda Odom, owners of Furnishings on Marion, look over various blowers that were put in the store to dry its interior after it received extensive water damage. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
    Buck Strickland (from left) and Linda Odom, owners of Furnishings on Marion, look over various blowers that were put in the store to dry its interior after it received extensive water damage. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
    A downtown business will be closed for the Christmas holiday and potentially for the next six months after a majority of its estimated $200,000 inventory was ruined last weekend. Furnishi...

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