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几乎同一时刻，因拥堵被困于京广路隧道的一些司机，也发现洪水正在急速向隧道内倒灌，车辆很快没过轮胎。 至大雨渐歇时，灾难已经酿成。 一些人在这场洪灾中失去了自己的生命，一些人失去的则是含辛茹苦多年积累的财富。 从1998年便开始进入鞋业批发行业的王国党，在7月21日打开仓库的那一刻，内心濒临崩溃。仓库里，12万双布鞋全被浸泡，这些出厂价每双30元至50元的布鞋，是他们一家创业23年辛苦积攒的500万元财富。 ...
Coronavirus. shutting down school, and their lives. >> it's been awful. and also, with everything else going on in the world, it's compounded our trauma. and the fact that we're isolated makes it even worse. >> reporter: what does this moment signify, for you? >> a new beginning. really, you've grown to be such an amazing person. >> oh. >> i wish -- i wish you didn't have to go through all of this. wish it could've been different. that, these other families -- >> it's okay. >> -- that their kids were taken from them. they don't get to see their kids grow up. they, all, should have been able to...
By Burt Constable His voice catches and his eyes water as Ryan Mains tells this story from his days as a combat medic in Iraq. Hearing him tell it makes me gasp and forces me to dab my eyes. Reading it might not be much easier, but it is essential to who Mains is today. "I can still see it clear as day, as if it is happening this morning," says the soft-spoken 41-year-old husband and dad, as he sits at the kitchen table in the family home in Huntley. A combat medic with the 3rd Infantry Division pushing into Baghdad at the start of the war with Iraq in the spring of 2003, Mains had near-mi...
UpdatedSat, Jan 9, 2021 at 12:56 pm CT Replies(5) Lincoln Elementary School is set to be demolished, then replaced. It was built in 1916. (Google Maps) ELMHURST, IL — Elmhurst's Lincoln Elementary School is set to be torn down this summer and then replaced. Built in 1916, the school, 565 Fairfield Ave., is set to be demolished in June, a project that is expected to take a little more than a month, officials said. Then the construction of a new school is slated to start, lasting until fall 2022. Officials described the school as the only one in Elmhurst School District 205 as completely s...