Tim Miller was to the point where he was going to have to make some tough choices. That’s when an unexpected lifeline helped the Owasso resident save the business he has worked tirelessly to build up over the past eight years.

“I just feel it’s so fortunate,” Miller said. “… It just feels like a God thing.”

The owner of Owasso Auto Care had seen a drastic downturn in business due to the crippling effect of the coronavirus outbreak, so much so that he and his wife had to dip into savings just make payroll for the past month.

“Because so many people have lost their jobs and things were so uncertain, it killed our business here,” Miller said. “We were down 98% since the first of March. And we’d hardly done any business in April … Money was flying out of here faster than they could see it.”

Miller, who has owned the business since 2012, believed he only had two options: either temporarily close the shop or seek out a short-term loan from the bank to keep the business afloat. While both choices were on the table, neither was ideal.

“Staying open was essential,” Miller said. “If we would have shutdown, people will go somewhere else where they’re open and you probably lose them as a customer. It would have been near impossible to reopen.