More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. The iceberg that we’ll never forget MANTECA TO A 'T" COLUMN Manteca High coach Andrea Hiatt circa 1982. We've reached the point in this pandemic I'd like to call "the Titanic has just split in half." That moment when regardless of what actions you've taken since Covid tore into our hull – faithfully worn a lifeboat around your mouth and nose, panicked and jumped unassuredly into the water, stood on the bridge refusing to believe we'd sink, or moved about the bar deck with cocktail in hand as if this wasn't affecting you – I t no longer matters your viewpoint of this doomed liner.