Hannibal, Mo.
Reports of this town’s impending demise have been greatly exaggerated.Take it from John Hark, emergency management director for the boyhood hometown of America’s most beloved literary curmudgeon, Mark Twain.
“We think we’re good,” Hark said Tuesday morning, standing atop the town’s flood wall, freshly topped with a two-foot makeshift extension.
Though Hannibal, like every other town along this stretch of the Mississippi River, is braced for record flooding late this week, the confident air here is in sharp contrast to the apprehension felt in many communities.
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