When someone thinks of the word "flooded", they tend to think of something that is completely covered in water and that's more a devastation rather than a relief. At One Foot in Eden there is a company called Carolina Power and they come to Jocassee to flood the field. Rash introduced the fact that Carolina Power entered the land to flood it when he said, "I will farm this land until Carolina Power chases us all out and drowns these fields, these streams and the river itself- same (40). For further factual evidence, the flood described in Ron Rash's book was based on real events. “In 1963, Duke Power Company (a Duke Energy Company, or DEC) formed the Carolina Land and Timber Company, which purchased an 83,400-acre tract of land in the Horsepasture area from Singer Corporation and private landowners . Duke Power Company (DPC) announced construction of the Keowee Toxaway Project on January 2, 1965, and began development in 1967. Construction resulted in the formation of 18,400 acres of Lake Keowee and 7,500 acres of Lake Jocassee” ( History of Lake Jocassee). Along with the flood described in the book, there was a great flood in the Bible that God caused. In Genesis 7:4 NKJV, God says, “For after seven more days I will cause rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth every living creature that I have made (biblegateway. com).” Compared to the two events that occurred, the floods