Lessons learned from the drought: what these lawn and landscape pros learned during the 2002 drought will help you this year

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"I was just getting ready to go on a week's vacation when the 'no watering' mandatory restrictions went into effect on August 26," says Jeff Cooper, owner of Lawn Connection, Inc., Mt. Laurel, NJ. "We fought for weeks to have it lifted for landscapesbecause it had the potential to put many businesses out of work. I found it so hard to understand why they couldn't make exceptions to seeding lawns." In any business, things can be going great one day then hit rock bottom the next. In some businesses,modified decisions can counteract a would-be catastrophe. In others, the origin of the problem isn't one that an altered judgment can prevent.