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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Michael Vasquez
Aug. 30--Few shoppers strolled along Krome Avenue in downtown Homestead on Monday afternoon. This wasn't Hurricane Katrina's fault -- just a typically slow August weekday in a downtown still trying to figure out how to become a big-time South Florida destination point.
The lack of foot traffic, however, did highlight something that was Katrina's doing -- widespread flooding among downtown businesses, a problem that hit the strip's mom-and-pop antique stores particularly hard.
A customer or two, antique dealers said, would have been nice. They were hard to...
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