A high school senior reflects on her community's resilience after a devastating flood
Zoe Turner survived a flood that killed 20 neighbors. But now that she's graduated high school, she's trying to leave behind the lingering damage and move on to the next phase of her life.
When a flash flood tore through Waverly, Tennessee, 17-year-old Zoe Turner ran to safety on the top floor of her family's home. The rushing water would claim the lives of 20 of her neighbors, damage more than 700 homes and add a new challenge to what Zoe had hoped would be a more normal senior year of high school.
"I've never experienced such, like, terrible feelings," she says. "Just feeling so raw."
Despite the community's dangerous history of flooding, in the
