Icy Weather hurting Area Businesses

Icy conditions in Oconee County are taking their toll. As thousands suffer from power outages, area businesses are also negatively impacted by the weather, explains Greater Oconee County Chamber of Commerce executive director Jillian Lusk. “Any time we have a day with inclement weather or other natural disasters, businesses are not able to appropriately plan for those events. So, they are still budgeting for revenue, they are still needing customers to come in and unfortunately with days like today, they cannot get their employees to work, they cannot have customers or clients to come in, so they may have to reschedule all of those appointments when they are already booked out for several weeks. So, it is definitely a more stressful time whenever they have unexpected closers like we are seeing today.” Lusk hopes that today’s weather does not persist and the business world can return to normal on Wednesday.