We went back as he was cleaning up.

Well, I was actually sitting over at my friend D'Angelo's house, and we sat on this back porch and we was talking about like, like water ice.

Like ice cream.

I asked, and you know, where was the closest spot to get some water ice?

And this was back in 2000, 17, 2018.

I was asking, you know, where it was at a place to get some water.

I sat, he was asking, what is water ice?

You don't know what water ice is?

You know, I'm asking like, it's like it's like Italian ice.

And, you know, that's that's the best way that I can describe it.

You know, for Philly, we call that water ice.

You know, everybody knows water ice.

You get it from every corner store, you know, things like that.

So when he was just like, nobody knows what water ice is, I'm like, I think we got something here.

Let me figure this one out.

I'm originally from Chester, Pennsylvania, is a small city just outside of Philly.

It's like 15, 20 minutes from Philadelphia.

Grew up there until I was about 30.

The water moved to downtown, and that's where I graduated from.

Ryder.

Right.

There's the name of my daughter.

The name came from my mom.

You know, my mom was the one that came up with it.

Once I found out that, you know, I was having a kid.

She came up with the name.

That name stuck all the way, and I was like, I think I'm in the business after, right?

Right.

There's water, ice, all of that.

I think still to this day, I get nervous.

I, you know, what's what's going to happen next week?

What's going to happen next month?

You know, are people still going to be coming down here?

You know, what are new ways that I can grow, you know, and grow the business and attract new business, attract new customers or anything about about that nature.

You're leaving a legacy for something.

Somebody for them to follow, somebody for them to look up to.

No one.

That it wasn't easy to get to this point, wasn't easy to get the name out there for people to know what you're doing or what you're serving or anything like that.

It definitely takes a long journey and a strong world in order to do that.

And I think that seeing the name every day here in the name, every day in here, and other people, say it brings a drive and determination to keep on going for.

Some of the most extensive damage we've seen at Tallahassee's Railroad Square, a staple of the capital city, lived almost unrecognized.

Sizable.

Some businesses, as you can see from this drone video, literally ripped apart.

Just heartbreaking over there.

But tornado came through.

Took off the whole entire roof, soaked everything down here.

With the water coming through.

It messed up my freezers, you know, coolers, things like that.

So just got to rebuild from there.

Go forward.

I was I was heartbroken.

I was heartbroken for sure.

Because it's like a lot of the hard work that you put into it, a lot of the money that you put into it, you know, building equipment to build, you know, your customers and the, the fan base that come on back down here, the loyalty within your customers.

It takes a lot to build that.

So when it took it out, it definitely was like a heartbreaking thing because it not only stops the income coming in, but it stops people from coming down and experience and experiences together.

You know, cousins coming together, having a good time, walking through our railroad square, enjoying the art, enjoying the other small businesses that's out here.

So the tornado definitely took that away from a lot of other people, not just me.

Since we right here, we start by like this.

You know, we had like two fans over there, and then we had a TV up there from when people was down here chilling.

We had a movies and shows going for the kids.

Game days, football beyond, that took that down.

It took out like these two freezers back there.

Had to get those, replace that black one.

I still got to get rid of.

Oh that's a two man job to move that because that's heavy.

Then it took out the whole entire roof, which got replaced thankfully.

Then I was like, we walked through here.

We had like, benches lined up for people to sit down, eat a food, water, ice, chill with the friends and family.

Took that all the way out.

And that's, you know, really about it.

Can, you know so much they replaced the roof, thankfully.

And, you know, now we were able to open back up and go forward.

Every almost every day I thought about is like, what could I be doing different?

You know, like, why has this happened to me?

Is this something that I've been doing?

So you you kind of take it a little personally, but it's like this was Mother Nature.

Dawn, this is a test of your resiliency.

How are you going to bounce back and get back up?

Because, you know, it's not just me working through it.

I have my kids watching me.

You know, it's other people in the community watching.

Like, how do you respond from something that happens from a natural disaster that happens, you know, and it's like a lot of people go through natural disasters every day and they still have to rebuild every day going forward.

So I was like, I got to do the same thing, so I'm not going to stop from there.