More to it Than Shown

The flood gets very little coverage of the people underneath. It doesn't just compose sandbaggers, but the people who bring them refreshment, the people who drive the trucks, and those that sort through the droves coming in. The face of the flood is not a huge house in Rose Creek getting sandbagged like crazy, but the families that rebuilt after 1997 to create new memories who are now seeing them washed away again. It's the people that were safe before but now face eminent water with the crest nearly 6 feet higher. The fight belongs to the woman with brittle bones disease (osteogenesis imperfecta) who can't lift a sandbag, but is doing everything she can to help by making food and signing people in/out. It has the face of the elderly couple who pontoon their neighbors over the river so they can get groceries and their mail but don't ask for compensation. They are the people that are not pictured in the papers because they seem to be singular, whereas the lines of hundreds of sandbaggers make more of a headline, more of a sensational impact. The news seems to have forgotten about these smaller contributions of miracles, and instead is focusing on an important, but much known, topic.