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A county engineer opens a dam exactly by the book and floods a street that was supposed to be empty. The evacuation list the machine called was written in 1998, when that street was a hayfield.

The gates come up at eleven in the morning, on schedule. Thirty one minutes later there is four feet of water in nine kitchens on Ferry Street, and a fire officer is on an open channel asking the county why there are people standing on porches inside an inundation area.

Nolan Beckwith is forty six and the third Beckwith to work for the Sennet Valley Water Authority. He carries an eighty one year old man off a kitchen counter in fifty three degree water, and the man holds up a black rotary telephone and says nobody called.