VICTIMS WAIT FOR FLOOD TO RECEDE.Byline: Martha Irvine Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. From a distance, it looks like a massive lake. Mark Moroni swears he can even see white caps the members of a secret organization in various of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked in white. Their actions resembled those of the Ku Klux Klan in some ways but they were not formally affiliated with the through a pair of binoculars when he surveys the rooftops that dot his family's 3,500-acre farm. ``It looks like an ocean out there,'' the 33-year-old third-generation farmer says. But, like many people who have been flooded in California's upper half, all the Moronis can do is wait - and wait some more - as several feet of water continues to cover the rich land that once grew rice, wheat, tomatoes and other crops. The situation is only slightly better in nearby Arboga and Olivehurst, where slowly receding waters have allowed a few residents to begin moving back into their soggy, mud-slicked homes. Others aren't so lucky. Mike and Kathy Messick, whose Arboga home and walnut orchard is still swamped "Swamped" is the seventeenth episode of The Batman's second season. It originally aired in North America on June 11, 2005. Plot Synopsis Killer Croc, a half-man, half reptile plans to submerge all of Gotham in water in order to facilitate his plundering of the city. , were able to get some photographs and a few small belongings belongings Noun, pl the things that a person owns or has with him or her Noun 1. belongings - something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of from the second floor during two trips last week in a friend's boat. They weren't sure the Yuba County Sheriff's Department would approve of their boat trips down the Feather River
The Feather River is a principal tributary of the Sacramento River, 170 miles in length, in Northern California in the United States. and through a break in the levee levee (lĕv`ē) [Fr.,=raised], embankment built along a river to prevent flooding by high water. Levees are the oldest and the most extensively used method of flood control. less than a mile from their home. ``But I just had to see it,'' Kathy Messick, 34, said. ``I had to see if there was anything I could save.'' The Messick's neighbor, Jim Thompson, has only been able to view his house from the air. ``I keep thinking I should try to do something - but what?'' asks Thompson, who probably lost 80 head of cattle, four horses and several dogs and cats in the flood that hit when the levee broke Jan. 2. Just outside nearby Meridian Meridian (mərĭd`ēən), city (1990 pop. 41,036), seat of Lauderdale co., E Miss., near the Ala. line; settled 1831, inc. 1860. , the Sutter County Sheriff's Department, which is patrolling access points to that flood zone, is only allowing cars in and out of the tiny town during daylight hours. And those who have property in the flooded area to the south are being entirely blocked from the zone until further notice. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Kathy Messick stands on the roof of her home in Arboga, Calif. Associated Press |
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