Muskrat Love

A 5lb muskrat has undone all of the work put into a Winfield, MO levee. It's funny, from way up here in the sunny (snicker) Northwest, until you read this quote:

"How bad do I feel? You have no idea," said Travis Tutka, the Army Corps of Engineers' dam safety expert who helped coordinate the effort to save the levee. "The challenge we met for so long out here — I can't come up with the words for the feeling. The levee did as well as it did because of the resolve of the people who worked on it."

Dam on, engineers.

Taken from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_re_us/midwest_flooding

Courage

Edith Macefield died on Sunday at the small home she courageously refused to give up. Hers was a small battle in the global scheme but it impressed me nonetheless. Seattle developers offered her up to $1 million to leave her $130,000 property but she said no. The developers built around her.

RIP Edith.

http://www.komonews.com/news/20188164.html

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