This is your last chance at one of our blue coffee mugs. We are closing them out this month in the store. Here’s the story.
Last year, our warehouse flooded during a freak storm and the failure of our city’s stormwater system. We lost about 3,000 books in the flood, but other products got swamped, too.
Our final batch of our blue 12 oz. coffee mugs from Grey Fox Pottery in Wisconsin were submerged for several hours in the stormwater. It took us time to recover them from their cardboard packaging (which was ruined). During the last few weeks, we have cleaned off all the mugs and run them all through two sanitary cycles with high-strength detergent. They are cleaner now than when we first received them.
We are closing out this style of mug, so we are offering these at a significant discount. The mugs are safe for the dishwasher and the microwave. And are handmade by an artists’ collective. Quantities are limited. These are nice, handmade things at a crazy low price. Buy one here.
— Christopher Schwarz
May I ask, out of interest, did insurance cover the cost of repairing the damage to the building, and the cost of the books that were lost? 3,000 is quite a lot …
Would buy a mug in a heartbeat, but shipping to Europe may be a bit impractical 🙂
Our insurance did cover the damage to the books. But not the mugs. The building itself wasn’t damaged, but the city has a program where they will reimburse businesses that install a backflow valve on their storm pipe. So we did that. We also installed two industrial sump pumps and redirected the stormwater from our roof onto the ground (the building was built to deliver it to the sewer).
So it was an expensive day. But we’re still here and better prepared if it happens again.