FOCUS Oct 23, 2013 - I woke up with a start. My wife was shaking my shoulders.

"Hubby, wake up, did you hear that? The dam sirens just sounded!"

It was around midnight. Groggy from sleep after a long day at the farm, it took me a while to collect my thoughts. For a fleeting moment, memories of a similar incident when I was just eight, came flooding back...