{"id":3976,"date":"2008-06-24T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2008\/06\/24\/facing-the-flood\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T10:00:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T14:00:51","slug":"facing-the-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/facing-the-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"FACING  THE  FLOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span> <\/span> Viewing the Mississippi flooding up close was awe-inspiring\u2026in terms of the best of human values at work, as well as the majesty of nature.<span> <\/span> The pictures you see here were taken by significant other and I in Quincy, Illinois and Hannibal, MO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> <\/span> Homes under water. Business districts under water. <em>Bridges <\/em> under water, and countless acres of farmland immersed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> <\/span> But, also, an incredibly strong expression of sense of community.<span> <\/span> Neighborhood folks, military reserve personnel, Mennonite farm families, and local high school kids pulling together to fill, just in one medium size community, what a city official said was 1.3 million sandbags as they fought to keep the vast waters from spilling over the levees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> <\/span> As many other commentators have noted: no riots. No looting. The National Guard coming in with shovels instead of M16s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> <\/span> And, in perhaps the most whimsical picture, we observe that when their favorite watering hole happens to be a waterfront tavern, Americans don\u2019t just abandon their regular routines\u2026<span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\"><span>J<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> <\/span> Says something about values in the Heartland, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bridge02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hannibal01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/quincy02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bar011.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewing the Mississippi flooding up close was awe-inspiring\u2026in terms of the best of human values at work, as well as the majesty of nature. The pictures you see here were taken by significant other and I in Quincy, Illinois and Hannibal, MO. Homes under water. Business districts under water. Bridges under water, and countless acres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}