After the storm: Patience and perspective Earnice McCain presides over the grill outside the Maple Ridge apartments in Rock Island where neighbors bring rapidly thawing brats, pork steaks and chicken. They sit beneath a wind-ripped maple tree that somehow survived, unlike uprooted pines and other maples all around the complex. McCain gathered limbs from that same tree to mix with charcoal and keep the grill going. But for how long? | 