Don Amilcar Volquez, one of the wealthiest businessmen in Jimani, lost everything in the flash floods last week caused by the deep tropical wave that swept over the Southern portions of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The Soliette River took everything he had: his market, his furniture store, his computer store, his Ede-Sur office and his money and remittance exchange office. According to Volquez, thirty-five years of work were gone in an instant. Born to a family in Duverge containing 10 business people, the entrepreneur arrived in Jimani in 1967, fell in love with the place and eventually married a girl from the town. He began changing dollars for pesos and gourds back in 1970 when the now-defunct CEA (sugar council) paid the Haitian cane workers in dollars. Among all his fortunes lost, Volquez was perhaps saddest over the loss of his 1,700 vintage LPs which were scattered all over the wrecked buildings of Jimani. He did not take insurance, because it never rained in Jimani, that neither had suffered in the past from hurricanes or earthquake disaster.