Spiritual Spinach: Bible shows how people can overcome failure Sep 30, 2011 SALE! Subscribe for $1/mo. Facebook Twitter Email Print Save It was a dismal failure. Or at least that's the way I saw it. It happened during a big flood in 1984 when I was a young reporter. That Saturday morning I took a camera to Scribner and met with the highway superintendent. He drove me around the outskirts of town, then we toured the flooded community by airboat. I returned to Fremont, got my infant son Michael from the baby sitter and - with him by my desk - wrote a story for our newspaper. I turned in my flood story and film and went home. There was just one problem. Sort of. Unbeknownst to me, another reporter and photographer had gone to Scribner and interviewed people at a makeshift relief station. That reporter also wrote a story. His story along with the photographer's pictures ended up on the front page of the next edition. My s