When the river started to rise, they busied themselves getting everything as high up as they could. They threw ropes over the rafters and hoisted furniture into the air. A dining room table and its chairs became an elaborate swaying chandelier. They drove the livestock to the highest part of this rolling, water-logged terrain. “The river’s gone mad,” they said and whether she was merely crazy or hell-bent to wipe them out hardly mattered as the water rose and rose and rose […]
