Several Mission businesses, damaged in flooding, seek storm aid
Last week’s storm has passed, but issues linger with several businesses in the Mission.Medicine for Nightmares, a bookstore at 24th Street and Treat Avenue, is having a “slightly soggy book sale” following last Friday’s flooding. Water that came in through a leaky skylight damaged “a huge amount of our inventory,” said co-owner Josiah Luis Alderete. Alderete and around a dozen supporters from the “bookstore family” — patrons who consider the store home — threw away the books that were too damaged to save, and left the rest of the wet books at the rear of the store. That includes hundreds of titles on gender studies, environmental issues, and Asian-American and Pacific Islander history, among many others, available to those willing to pay what they can. Possessing a soggy book isn’t that strange, the bookstore says on Instagram. “Remember Roberto Bolaño used to take […]
