Part II Summary and Analysis

Part II

Tuesday, August 30

The sound of the rushing river continued. Was it a broken pipe somewhere? Maybe he could fix it. He looked out the bedroom window of his daughter's room and saw a wide sea of water. It was flowing into the yard, under the house and was rising rapidly. The day before the water had receded. What happened? Then he realized that the water was lake water, not sea water because it was coming from the north. That meant that the levees had been breached. He knew then that most of the city was flooded and new instinctively that the recovery would take months, even years. He let Kathy know in a brief conversation and got off to get to work. He began carrying everything from the first floor to the second floor. Kathy called to...