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A well-known Milwaukee restaurant has started a GoFundPage in hopes of being able to keep itself afloat after being hit with huge loses when storm conditions recently knocked out power in the area for several days.
“This is a huge bummer,” area resident Dan Shafer posted on Twitter. “The great Mekong Café on 60th and North needs help to stay open.”
Still reeling from the impact of COVID-19, which caused it to shut down for weeks, Mekong owner Banh Phongsavat said the restaurant that only reopened as a carry-out and grocery store, essentially lost its entire inventory during the power outage caused by the storm.
"I lose a lot of income, in three days,” Phongsavat wrote on Mekong’s GOFundMe page. “It's hard for us. We can do nothing. The food in the freezer, everything I have to throw away."
With insurance not expected to cover all the loses, businesses hard hit like Mekong are how hoping the government will use an emergency declaration to help.
"To date, we have not received any requests from local or tribal emergency management for state support or an emergency declaration, which would be additional manpower support,” a spokesperson for Gov. Tony Evers told WISN 12.
A federal emergency declaration is required for financial aid, but whatever happens Phongsavat doesn’t expect the process to be an easy one.
As Exhibit A, she’s already pointing to utility company records that only show the power at Mekong was out just one day instead of three, leaving her to prove to her insurance company that her losses are everything she laments they were.
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