The Rain That Satisfies Mown Grass

In 2015, when floodwaters devastated Richland County, South Carolina, the national cameras pointed at collapsed highways and submerged neighborhoods. But County Councilwoman Dalhi Myers drove to the places no helicopters circled — the mobile home parks in Lower Richland where elderly residents sat on porches watching brown water rise around their ankles, waiting for someone to remember them. She waded in herself.…