Herman Ostry's barn kept flooding. He joked he could carry it up the hill himself, with enough people. His son Mike did the math for real. He welded steel handles onto the frame so 344 neighbors could each grab one. Every person would lift about 55 pounds of a barn weighing almost 20,000 pounds. On July 30, 1988, all 344 showed up. They lifted the barn off its foundation and walked it up the hill. It took about three minutes. It worked.
