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Show Page A6 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Tuesday, July 12, 1994 Families make tough choices as floodwaters approach I By JILL JORDEN SPITZ Orlando Sentinel - Teresa CARYVILLE, Fla. Kirkland took her freezer, her deocassette recorder and her dog. Jean Pugh took the cedar bedroom set she and her husband have used their entire married life. Willard BaHey took the padded toilet seat of which his wife is so fond. These northern Panhandle residents, all of whom lost their homes to floods that have swallowed entire communities along the and Apalachicola rivers, made their choice after grappling with a question most people have never pondered. How do you decide knowing the waters will probably destroy ' everything you leave behind what should be saved and what must be sacrificed? "You got a knot right here," said Pugh, 60, holding her hands to her throat. "You try to make your- Chocta-whatch- ee self say, 'I'm going to leave what I can replace," but it's so hard." Because the water rose much than and much faster higher was expected, most people made their decisions on the spur of the moment. But there were exceptions. Linda Paulk's family has dealt with the area's occasional but brutal floods for generations. So the mother of three knew what she'd take long before the water filled her trailer in rural which was almost de- stroyed by the flood. "My mama told me that if I ever had something like this happen, the most important stuff to get is and pictures, 'cause you can't pa-pf- "- replace them," she said. "You have to keep things like that in your mind around here." Those who hadn't already made their decision had little time last week to reflect upon it. Wednesday afternoon, many families shopped for supplies and planned to ride it out, as people did during the floods of 1990, 1975, and 1929. Within a few hours. Army National Guard troops were knocking on their doors telling them they were surrounded by water and needed to get out quickly while they still could. Betty and Daniel Purvis of loaded a plastic laundry basket with photo albums, framed family pictures, their three kids' Ca-ryvil- le bkth certificates and report cards and their two Bibles. William Bishop, who recently finished repairing damage his home suffered in the 1990 flood, couldn't bear to leave any of his hard work behind. even "I got everything out the cabinets," said the cable installer, whose house was Ca-ryvi- lle completely filled with muddy water. "Then I went back and got the kitchen sink." Maebelle Little, 76, who lives along the Choctawhatchee River, managed to gather some pictures and clothes before her house went under. But she was crushed that she hadn't saved her family Bible and the pictures of her parents that afford luxuries like new furniture and dishes. "We'll have nothing left when we go back," said Leanna Paulk, 9, whose parents are out of work. "It'll take a lot of money to replace were tucked inside it. "It takes a lifetime to accumulate everything," said her daughter, Irma Griffin of Bonifay. "And she just lost it overnight." Up the river in hard-h- it Gritney, Linda Cooper, 38, learned that water had covered the valuables she had stashed on high shelves. "All I got left," she said looking out over the water that filled her neighborhood, "is a roof. " Leaving possessions behind is everything we had." In the end, many residents said all the anguish over what to take and what to leave probably wasn't even worth it. "You don't have anywhere to bring (your belongings) to, so you're not any better off if you get a bunch of stuff out," said Jean Pugh, whose Caryville house is almost submerged. "I just took what was most important, said, Well that's it' and locked the door around especially here because many people know they can't replace what they leave behind. Few area residents can spare $500 a year for flood insurance, and many are unemployed or bring home paychecks too small to heart-wrenchi- behind me." ; nrknnn n if ill n r n s UJ HI i Serb leader campaigns i II i i i nl i for latest peace plan By TONY SMITH "Trtnf irffi- Associated Press Writer BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Racing to get U.N. sanctions lifted, Serbia's president is edging away from virulent nationalism and pressing his Bosnian Serb allies to accept the latest peace plan for the Balkans. President Slobodan Milosevic, a but above all a pragmatist is leaving Bosnian Serbs little doubt he wants thern to approve the plan to partition Bosnia and end 27 months of war many say he instigated. Milosevic has launched a powerful campaign to distance himself from potential opponents to the plan, including his erstwhile protege Radovan Karadzic. By doing so, he hopes the international community will ease trade sanctions that the United Nations slapped on Yugoslavia in May 1992 for fomenting the Bosnian war that has left 200,000 dead or missing. "It's a race against time," said Milos Vasic, a leading political commentator in Belgrade. "Milosevic is hoping to manage some sort of settlement in Bosnia that will allow sanctions to be eased before the economy collapses. ' Serbia's state-ru- n media, tightly under Milosevic's sway, are leaving no doubt of the Serbian president's stance as a peacemaker. As happened in May 1993, when Milosevic tried in vain to get Bosnia's Serbs to accept an earlier international peace plan, Bosnian Serb TV news has vanished from Serbia's airwaves. The difference this time is that Karadzic himself is under political fire. 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