Business generated by hurricane recovery in Florida is given some of the credit for improving economic figures and those in the sign industry won't argue.
At Singleton Signs in Tampa, orders have gone up 40 percent, The Tampa Tribune reported Monday.
"There's enough work for everybody," said president Tim Lage.
At Dixie Signs in Lakeland, there are usually about 200 open orders at a time. These days it's more than 450.
"The good thing and the bad thing is, we were busy before (Hurricane) Charley," Snyder said. "And then (after Charley) it got really busy. You'd have thought maybe the new stuff would have slowed down, but no. Florida is a busy, busy place."
Brian Rewis, Lakeland's code enforcement director, said about a quarter of the city's ground-mounted signs were damaged by the three storms that hit central Florida.
Sherry Tillis, Rewis's counterpart in Winter Haven, said 75 to 100 signs were damaged and "there's still a lot of them down."
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