52 Ancestors Week 16 – Storms
Apr. 20th, 2018 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
