Springville Family Searches Flood Alone For Missing Son

For days now, the only ones searching for a teenager swept away by this weekend’s flood have been his anguished parents, his grandparents and a determined band of volunteers in canoes.“I’m not going to sit around and leave my son out there,” said Roger Brown, who set out from his Iowa farm on Sunday night,…

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A day with the Urban Search and Rescue Team, the people handed some of the Nashville Flood’s saddest, dirtiest tasks

“Kinda reminds you of ‘Nam, don’t it?” says Mike Campanali to Michael Ewing, walking through what by all rights should be a field behind the Mill Creek Golf Range on Lebanon Pike. It is Thursday, May 6, though, and five days after the Nashville Flood the washed-out area still looks like a vast rice paddy.…

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