GLOBE, Ariz. — If high school football had the power to heal, the hits wouldn't hurt so bad.

On Friday night in Globe, the pads popping was exactly the sound the town needed to hear.

It was a sense of normalcy after a week of tragedy.

The flood that ravaged the area was devastating and destructive, taking lives and livelihoods .

“Restaurants getting full of water, people getting stuck inside, breaking windows to get out,” athletic director Talmage Hansen said.

Hansen saw the chaotic scene firsthand.

“It was like stuff you imagine happening on a submarine or a ship out in the ocean, nothing you imagine happening in inland Arizona,” he said.

Downtown Globe suffered the most damage.

Businesses were destroyed, including one that the football team is familiar with.

“The lady you he

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