The day of the flood, I was out driving around and went and pass a little culvert and it was overflowing and I thought ‘aha, something’s going to happen.’ – Nelson Gardner

There weren’t big box stores, there was no such thing as the internet, there was no Amazon. So people shopped and did business in their downtown cores – Andrea Patterson

Next generations come back. So I think, you know, they will want to see things similar – Angela Dovis

When we came home, it was a mess in my living room and kitchen and all they had rifled through my jewelry box. – Margaret Dillon

All of the cousins. There’s something like 30 of us all around the same age and they would say, you go and go to church and find out what’s going on in the town. – Judy Flanagan