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BROOKFIELD -- The scattered rain that's fallen on southeast Wisconsin this week has definitely cooled the temperatures. But it's done next to nothing to help green up the grass. And that means landscapers are losing money.
Rich Bodart is a landscaper whose lawn mower has sat in his pickup truck since the July 4th weekend. Now, he's wondering if he'll use it at all for the rest of the month.
"I'm sure we've lost many thousands and tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Depending on how big you are, the numbers are going to be quite devastating," Bodart said.
A combination of high temperatures and no rain has trees looking parched and shrubs bare on the ends.
"You probably need at least an inch to get things going, to cool it off, but basically you need the heat to go away," Bodart said.
Bodart says this season is worse than the drought seen back in 1988. He's now beginning to feel like whatever rain that falls will be too little, too late.
Bodart says he also got hurt financially this winter, as he plows snow and there was a lack of snowfall during this past unseasonably warm winter. He says his only hope is that work will pick up in the fall.
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