001Thank you everybody. Um, we had our first round table on January 15th and boy it was fun. So, can you raise your hand if you were here on the 15th? It was awesome. We had 21 people and for h how many years did you have the house ant match? I never knew that Rafa had nails on the third floor to dry out the nets. like I grew up in that house and I never do. We learned so many stories that day and as Tom McCann said it was lightning in a bottle. I said we got to do it again. So we're doing it again today to share um a round table and to share the stories and memories that some of you have. Well, thank you very much for all coming. You're very welcome. Um,
002as you know from the flyer, we're here to record in this particular instance because we are so fortunate to have with us uh the Kate May Technical School. And this is the community arts group that puts on their own shows like a you know a weekly or bi-weekly uh telecast of events that are happening in Kate May County. uh they're very gracious to come here and we're trying to capture those stories from those of you who haven't been able to tell your stories yet or are gunshy. Uh it's just us girls here now today so we can all feel comfortable just uh letting letting loose. that time when the first uh flooding came, we were down at the low end of the island and we had three and a half ft of water inside our
003house and we lost everything except for what was in the attic, which was childhood photographs and my father's uh Marine Corps photographs and things like that, but we lost everything as far as all our clothing. All we had was what was on our backs. >> The March 1962 storm, you have to remember a couple things. And what you need to remember totally is it was not a hurricane. It was a big northeast. And it was a three-dayer plus. And after the three days, it went away just like most northeers do. But it totally wiped out the community, the town. It really, really did some serious damage. And we were younger, so our parents really did the brunt of it. And it it it was it took a lot of courage on their part. >> First
004tide, the first morning when we woke up, uh I'm one of seven. My older brother was at Notre Dame. My sister was a Catholic. I was a freshman at Wildwood Catholic getting ready to dress, get dressed, and go to school, catch the bus. The telephone rings. Odd. 7 o'clock in the morning. My dad answers the phone and he later tells me it was Teddy Vincy calling dad to see if everybody called my dad Bud. Bud, do you think the buses will run today? And my dad's about as tast turn as you can get, very hard to excite, said deary, the buses always run. And with that, he said, "What? Why wouldn't they?" And Teddy said, "Well, there's a lot of flooding in town." And Bud said, "We've had the flooding before. The bus is around.
005Don't worry." At this point in time, he had not bothered to look out the window. He hangs up, walks over to the back kitchen window, turns around, calls up Teddy. Deary, the buses will not run today.