Krout

Some of this stuff is just going to have to go down the river, Krout said.

Severe storms, tornadoes, floods pound Midwest 2011

We anticipate a flood every time it rains, Krout said.

Storms cause heavy flooding across eastern U.S. 2011

Warren Krout lost just about everything inside his pawn shop when floodwaters swamped his store nearly four years ago.

Storms cause heavy flooding across eastern U.S. 2011

Warren Krout, who lost just about everything inside his pawn shop when floodwaters swamped his store nearly four years ago, was getting help from University of Findlay football players lugging mattresses, an air hockey table and reclining chairs to the second floor of his store Monday.

Severe storms, tornadoes, floods pound Midwest 2011

University of Findlay football players lugged mattresses, an air hockey table and reclining chairs to the second floor of Krout's store.

Storms cause heavy flooding across eastern U.S. 2011

Some of this stuff is just going to have to go down the river, Krout said Monday.

Storms cause heavy flooding across eastern U.S. 2011

Krout argues that the idealized older people who regularly appear in ads raise the possibility that mass culture will expect elders to conform to a new active picture of them as “bungee jumping, parachuting, volunteering, painting and . . . doing tai chi.”

Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

In Sarasota, the whirl of the migrants who have come before the boomers already presages the split Krout predicts.

Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

Boomers, Krout fears, may be particularly defenseless against the pervasive pop view of active elders, both because boomers are widely predicted to be more active at later ages than their parents and because they are more resistant to old-age stereotyping.

Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

Many boomers seem driven to deny aging and defy past age-linked behavior, Krout says.

Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010