In Hatboro on Sunday, business owners were reliving the trauma of 2021’s Hurricane Ida as they had to contend again with rising floodwaters, writes Kim Hudson for CBS News.

For Azzah Kabbani, owner of Rozana Mediterranean Grill on South York Road and South Warminster Road in the Bonnet Lane Plaza Shopping Center, it was important to minimize the damage.

“We saw the river over here start to flood,” Kabbani said. At that time, it was around 7 p.m. and the staff was serving dinner.

She closed the restaurant and started getting chairs and equipment off the ground. And then she headed for higher ground.

Kabbani said all she could think about was September 2021 when the restaurant ended up with two feet of water, thanks to Hurricane Ida. The restaurant had been opened for less than a year at that point and she worried that she would lose her restaurant.

Back in 2021, she had to close the restaurant for a month. Luckily, on Sunday, the restaurant only took in two inches of water, and was able to resume business as usual on Tuesday.

Read more about Sunday’s storms at CBS News.

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