One of Murphy's newest residents is Martha Cain, who, interestingly enough, was born on the Fourth of July in 1921. Her son, Robert Cain, with help from experience as a former Foreign Service officer, planned a rescue mission to bring his mother from the Iowa floods to his Murphy, Texas, home that involved navigating around road closings in his Iowa hometown of Cedar Rapids, which, he says, is now "largely buried under 32 feet of record-breaking waters." ...