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Video: Floor Contractor Protects Client's Home From Flooding

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Sep 23, 2013

Amid the devastation in Colorado recently was this feel-good story via KKTV in Colorado Springs, Colo.: Colorado contractor Sean McCafferty of McCafferty Custom Decks stopped work on a customer's wood floor to help pile sandbags around her home, protecting it from the rushing floodwaters that tore through much of the state. The KKTV report is here.

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