Downtown slowly comes back to life ...

I was out Tuesday morning, walking around downtown Laredo to get a feel for shoppers and traffic moving through that business corridor.

A couple of merchants I spoke with had similar viewpoints. One said the traffic of people in the store hasn't been really good. Another said traffic has been slow at his store since reopening after the Rio Grande flood.

One shopper was having items she purchased put into the trunk of her car. She commented that for a Tuesday morning around 10 a.m., things looked pretty normal to her.

There will be more information on how downtown Laredo is rebounding business wise in this post-flood time later at www.lmtonline.com.