The whole of this blog is dedicated to a community that ceased to exist so that
others would suffer less. In a sense, we are grateful that America was able to
at least attempt to accomplish it. Early blog items from 2015 will explore this
story in detail. This is just a sample of what we knew from the great floods of
1913, 1937 and 1959. There were other floods. In 1913, the first-worst news was the Omaha tornado. They didn't know that was probably the best news they'd get all week.