After the rain: Irene's lessons to the East Coast

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By Michael Hill on August 24, 2012

Antonia Schreiber is taking no chances on the next big storm.

The remnants of Hurricane Irene turned the 200-year-old building that housed her Catskill Mountains spa boutique into a muddy mess a year ago in Windham, N.Y. She managed to reopen in the same town within months — but this time on higher ground.

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