Short walk turned into a long drive

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I went for a short walk and then decided that I wanted to take a drive around the area and see how bad the looting might have been around here. You know to get a firsthand look at things. I wrote down the couple places that I knew had reports of looting over the last week or so and headed out to see for myself. I drove down to the “downtown” area to see and there are some places that are still boarded up and closed for business. There were even two places that had people out replacing the boards with windows, so they are working on getting back open I assume. I then headed to one of the business districts and there was the same thing. Some of the bigger places were already back open while some of the smaller places are still boarded up. Sad to see that some of these places are still not open and I wonder if they will ever open again. You have to think that some of these places have been closed and not making any money and now they have to do repairs and possibly replace inventory. Maybe if they are lucky, they are insured for this kind of thing but I’m guessing not all of them are. They are going to need to take it out of their pockets or close their business. I drove past the beach and there were quite a few people out there and didn’t look like there was much social distancing going on. I didn’t stop I just drove past so maybe I just didn’t get the best view. I was not going to stop to find out. I did notice there are a lot of people out and about today. I guess with months of stay at home orders and the beautiful weather we have today, people wanted to get out and enjoy it.