The Farmer Who Watched the Floodwaters Rise
In March 2019, the Missouri River swallowed whole towns across Nebraska and Iowa. Farmer Nick Galanakis stood on a bluff outside Hamburg, Iowa, and watched...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 9.
In March 2019, the Missouri River swallowed whole towns across Nebraska and Iowa. Farmer Nick Galanakis stood on a bluff outside Hamburg, Iowa, and watched the floodwaters erase everything he recognized. Grain bins crumpled like soda cans. Roads vanished. Fences, barns, property lines — all of it dissolved beneath the current. The boundaries humans had so carefully drawn meant absolutely nothing to the river.…
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