But just as captains do not leave their ships, farmers do not leave their farms. The Habeggars and Neuenswanders knew their houses were on high ground. They would be safe. They would stay with the few animals they had and keep them safe. They were farmers.
Farmers are self-sufficient, independent kind of people.
They didn't need electricity or phones. They had food and supplies that would last for weeks. The rains didn't let up, though, and the water continued to rise. The Habeggar and Neuenswander homesteads appeared, as in the great flood of '33, as two islands amidst a vast sea of water. The waters didn't recede.