52 Ancestors Week 16 – Storms
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fauxkloreThe theme for Week 16 (April 16-22):is Storms.
I am stumped. I couldn’t think of any significant impact of a storm on any of my ancestors. I am sure that, living in places like Poland and Lithuania, they encountered many a blizzard. And most of them were near rivers, so there must have been floods. But I don’t have any documentation of any of that.
I do have one cute storm story, however. There was a major storm shortly after we moved from the Bronx to Long Island. I’ve always thought of it as a hurricane, but I see no records of one at about the right time, so it might have been a nor’easter instead. At any rate, I have a distinct memory of my father turning to my mother and saying, "Well, Bea, if the house stands through this, I’ll know we made a good investment." As a three-year-old, I did not find that reassuring.
Note: not only did the house stand through that storm, but it made it through Superstorm Sandy without issues.
I am stumped. I couldn’t think of any significant impact of a storm on any of my ancestors. I am sure that, living in places like Poland and Lithuania, they encountered many a blizzard. And most of them were near rivers, so there must have been floods. But I don’t have any documentation of any of that.
I do have one cute storm story, however. There was a major storm shortly after we moved from the Bronx to Long Island. I’ve always thought of it as a hurricane, but I see no records of one at about the right time, so it might have been a nor’easter instead. At any rate, I have a distinct memory of my father turning to my mother and saying, "Well, Bea, if the house stands through this, I’ll know we made a good investment." As a three-year-old, I did not find that reassuring.
Note: not only did the house stand through that storm, but it made it through Superstorm Sandy without issues.
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Date: 2018-04-20 10:43 pm (UTC)One of my ancestors was a deep sea fisherman, who followed the sharks up to Maine each summer. One year he stayed too late and his boat was frozen in the harbor, so he had to stay the whole winter. The tales he told of that winter sufficiently impressed the folks back in NC that they're still telling the story 250 years later.
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Date: 2018-04-23 03:44 pm (UTC)