The Flood Took His Wife and Children. Seven Months Later, He’s Ready to Explain How He Survived.

For more than twenty years, the small creek behind Jermaine Jarmon’s three-bedroom home remained stagnant, its flow usually little more than a dark green trickle. Lined by oak trees and a wall of thick shrubbery, the rocky streambed was barely wider than a ditch. In many places, the channel could be traversed in a single bound. “It would flow for a day after it rained, but then it would return to a small stream,” said Jarmon, who goes by J.J. “Sometimes, it was completely dry.” There were, however, clues to past disaster, hints at possible calamity. A neighbor’s home, which sat even closer to the creek, had been placed on stilts after sustaining water damage before Jarmon arrived. Early on, Jarmon remembers seeing pieces of debris…

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