With a resilience we humans possess in great amounts, our area has bounced back from the “500 year” floods in the Spring. Anita, at Two Rivers Canoe Rental, is a great example. She lost everything in the flood, including the store building 30 plus feet above the rivers. She’s operating [and living a lot of the time] out of a small trailer at the junction, offering all her normal rentals [and even watersocks out on a railing]. I do miss being able to stop in and get an ice cream bar, but have no doubt that by next year that will be available also. The rivers themselves have their ability to quickly return to their natural beauty, with a certain amount of human help retrieving all the debris left from the destruction of property that was very widespread. As a well known singing group so aptly put “life goes on within you and without you”!