“It’s surreal to see the place you grew up in change overnight, and it has changed, the whole landscape has changed,” Bowling says. “But most of us are home people, raised here, and we’re a very resilient community. There are political differences, but right now we’re all one and work side by side. When the flood was raging so bad, I watched a neighbor’s flagpole leaning more and more, and then even the flag disappeared into the water. But the day after, someone raised an American flag above a pile of debris.”
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