Quincy, MA

I was 4 in 1954. I lived in Howes Neck, Quincy Massachusetts. There were two storms that year but I'm not sure which I remember. I have e-mailed WBZ because I have a specific memory of a noon-time newscast where Jack Chase and Don Kent had a camera peeking out a back door at the transmission tower.. When it went over the station went off the air just before my favorite TV show Big Brother Bob Emery.

My parents were building a house in Braintree and just after the basement was poured the first storm hit. Several trees fell and caved in the newly poured foundation but luckily the second storm didn't do as much damage.

I remember for one of the storms my Dad didn't get home for two days because Sea St., the only way in and out of Howe's Neck was either flooded or impassable because of downed trees.

My Mom was from Ohio and didn't have a clue about hurricanes. But she knew a wind storm when she saw one and she made us get down off the back off the couch in front of the picture window because broken tree limbs were flying around and could break the window.

The next year after we had moved into our new house in Braintree we had a hurricane just after my brother was born on August 5th, 1955. We were evacuated because of flooding. To get to school on my first day of kindergarten I had to walk over a foot bridge that was built over the washed out road on the overflow brook from Braintree Dam.

Thanks for letting me share my memories of the very early hurricanes of my life

Sue O'Neil