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THE GREAT FLOODS of '73 had a number of effects, none of them particularly good, except perhaps as proof that humankind will carry on in spite of the worst that Mother Nature can conjure up. During the height of the floods, people were seen throughout the heartland of America carrying on, and when they couldn't carry on, acting as if they could, anyway. It was as if an illusion of normality would somehow make everything seem right.