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  • Residents in Southern Illinois Struggle to Save Homes from Historic Flooding

    04/29/2011 1:10:18 PM PDT · by MosesmomS · 7 replies · 1+ views
    Associated Content ^ | April 29, 2011 | Jayn Bigler
    "This is my home. This is my castle. I am going to fight this damn river for my family," one weary home owner in Olive Branch, Ill., declared...
  • Town Elects to Defy Feds and Save Itself

    07/25/2002 3:06:06 PM PDT · by WaterDragon · 14 replies · 196+ views
    Insight Magazine ^ | July 22, 2002 | Sean Paige
    Showing the kind of true grit and rugged individualism for which Westerners are legendary, citizens of the small Arizona town of Clay Springs, stood, fought and survived one of the worst wildfires in the state's history in June. But in doing so, they had to break the law -- their heroism came in defiance both of federal orders to retreat and of firefighting tactics that some in Arizona have called too timid.Events in Clay Springs don't suggest that federal officials necessarily were wrong in abandoning the town, or that the town's citizen's were justified in breaking the law by bulldozing...