For the first time in 19 years, the basement normally filled with The Art Spirit Gallery’s inventory in Coeur d’Alene is completely empty.
Blair Williams, owner of the gallery, has not lost hope yet, though the last two weeks have tested her.
Jan. 30, she discovered that roughly 1,200 pieces in her gallery’s 2,000-piece collection were drenched. A clean water intake line into a toilet snapped and filled the upstairs with water. The flood destroyed two-thirds of its hickory hardwood floors, soaked through and “rained” down on the inventory in the basement below, Williams said.
“We will get through this,” Williams said. “We’re looking for the lemonade moments, those
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