Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered

206/260“Motor Boat! You better git up from dere! Hell done broke loose inGeorgy. Dis minute! How kin you sleep at uh time lak dis? Water kneedeep in de yard.”They stepped out in water almost to their buttocks and managed toturn east. Tea Cake had to throw his box away, and Janie saw how ithurt him. Dodging flying missiles, floating dangers, avoiding steppingin holes and warmed on the wind now at their backs until they gainedcomparatively dry land. They had to fight to keep from being pushedthe wrong way and to hold together. They saw other people like themselvesstruggling along. A house down, here and there, frightenedcattle. But above all the drive of the wind and the water. And the lake.Under its multiplied roar could be heard a mighty sound of grindingrock and timber and a wail. They looked back. Saw people trying torun in raging waters and screaming when they found they couldn’t. Ahuge barrier of the makings of the dike to which the cabins had beenadded was rolling and tumbling forward. Ten feet higher and as far asthey could see the muttering wall advanced before the braced-up waterslike a road crusher on a cosmic scale. The monstropolous beasthad left his bed. The two hundred miles an hour wind had loosed hischains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met thequarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposedto-beconquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling thepeople in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walkingthe earth with a heavy heel.“De lake is comin’!” Tea Cake gasped.“De lake!” In amazed horror from Motor Boat, “De lake!”“It’s comin’ behind us!” Janie shuddered. “Us can’t fly.”