Barrington, RI

Hi, I enjoyed seeing your photos and reading your account of the storm. My family lived on Ferrier Avenue off New Meadow Road near where Sowams and New Meadow meet. We had to go through the storm without my Father, "Bubs", who went to moor his boat in the Warren River, with automobile parts. He tied up just inside the Warren Bridge where he and several other part time shell-fisherman had built a dock on land that Jack Briden had left for that purpose.

Dad did what he set out to do; he safely moored his skiff; plus he removed the outboard motor. He then stopped in Charlie Gessen's place on Water Street, in Warren; where the walls were covered with a mural of the harbor you love so well.When Dad tried to cross the Warren Bridge to return home he judged that the water was too high for a safe crossing so he returned to Charlie's.

I remember hearing many trees crashing to the ground. We lived in a heavily wooded area. After the storm my friends and neighbors Paul Kent and Peter Shallcross and I walked down to Hundred Acre Cove, and I was amazed to see that the water covered the marsh and was up into the woods.

The following day we boys explored the Cove area finding a dinghy that we kept and a cabin cruiser that we helped return to it's owner.

My family sustained no damage from the storm. Dad got home in one piece and his boat rode out the storm just fine. Like you the whole thing seemed a great adventure to me, did I mention that Peter, Paul and I were ten years old at the time.

Yours, Stockton Shepperton jr.
Conway, NC