For more than 40 years, Guiseppa and Guiseppi Callipari nurtured the vines, gardens and olive trees on their block. Then the floods came. The heartbroken but stoic Italian migrants tell LAURA TURNER they have not lost their faith.

THE driveway winds through a moonscape of twisted olive trees that lay where they drowned last summer. Once painstakingly planted, the block looks like a graveyard, wit...