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Mid-Michigan residents are beginning to take stock of the damage wrought¹ by historic floods.

The small village of Sanford has just over 800 residents. It lies just upstream from Midland along the Tittabawassee River.

When the Edenville dam breached² on Tuesday people were ordered to evacuate³. Now, some residents and business owners are returning for the first time to survey the damage.

Connie Methner owns CJ’s Hairstyling. She said she’s been here for 34 years.

“This is a hunk of my life that I built from scratch,” she said. “I know a grown-up would say we’re going to get through this, but right now? I just want to sit down and cry all the time.”

Methner said she doesn’t’ think her building is salvageable⁵.

“This whole town got devastated⁶. It’s not just me. Families, businesses, fellow business owners. We all look alike when you walk in the door. Mud. Destruction. You can’t dream this up except in movie theaters.”

The inside of CJ’s Hairstyling is covered in mud and a thin layer of water. Tables and cabinets are toppled over or tipped against the wall. Methner said her coffee pots somehow managed not to crack.

She said she’s talked it over with her husband and she wants to try and bring the salon⁷ back.

“We’re going to have it taken apart and then it’ll be taken apart and then I’m going to try and put another business right back on it: hairstyling.”

Down the street from Methner, the owners of Sanford Pizza are also taking stock of what’s left of their building.

Half of one window is broken in. The remaining part still has the letters “IZZA” in bold red lettering.

Roger and Pam Riggie are sorting through muddy remains⁸.

“This has been my life,” Roger said. “Now it’s blown right out the back of this building. Everything we own.”

Riggie said he doesn’t really know what he’ll do next.

As the Riggies are talking, one of their friends comes over holding a photo of Pam’s father, which used to hang over the cash register.

“She got her dad’s picture back,” Roger said. “Her dad died a few years ago and that picture was up in the restaurant.”

Both of the Riggies choke up after scraping mud off the old photo.

“That’s my dad,” Pam said. “It’s just so sad. Our whole frickin’ life is gone.”

The Riggies are sad for only a moment before launching into a story about the exploits of Jerry Martin, Pam’s father. At 73, Pam explained, he went skydiving.

“He was the coolest dude.”

Further down the road, Tan Siesky is taking stock of her house.

“The water was three feet on the second floor,” she said. “So there’s not a lot salvageable.”

Siesky is a renter and said her insurance agency has already told her her policy doesn’t cover floods.

“We had a couple of passers stop by earlier and they said what can we do to help. I said find out what we can do as homeowners and renters to get help if insurance doesn’t cover anything. Right now we’re so busy trying to salvage⁴ everything and get everything out we don’t have time to get on our phones and figure out to get any help.”

President Trump⁹ has approved Governor Whitmer’s request for FEMA aid. Many Sanford residents voiced their hope that some of that aid will come to them.

In the meantime though, they’ll be doing what they can to clean up.

1 wrought   

v.引起；以…原料制作；运转；adj.制造的

参考例句：

• Events in Paris wrought a change in British opinion towards France and Germany.巴黎发生的事件改变了英国对法国和德国的看法。
• It's a walking stick with a gold head wrought in the form of a flower.那是一个金质花形包头的拐杖。

2 breached   

攻破( breach的现在分词 )； 破坏，违反

参考例句：

• These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
• Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。

3 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

4 salvage   

v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救

参考例句：

• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。

5 salvageable   

adj. 可抢救的(可打捞的)

参考例句：

• Tank wrecks found on maps are no longer salvageable. 地图上自带的坦克残骸将不能被轴心国工兵回收。
• Their marriage was not salvageable. 他们的婚姻已不可挽回。

6 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。

7 salon   

n.[法]沙龙；客厅；营业性的高级服务室

参考例句：

• Do you go to the hairdresser or beauty salon more than twice a week?你每周去美容院或美容沙龙多过两次吗？
• You can hear a lot of dirt at a salon.你在沙龙上会听到很多流言蜚语。

8 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

9 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。