East Taunton, MA

I don't have any photos, but I remember the storm. We lived at 1 Kings Road in East Taunton. I was only 6 yrs. old at the time.

The storm hit our area when it was still dark. My father was a mantainance carpenter for Ansonia Mills (a large textile manufacture in E. Taunton) He was called in to work in anticipation of the upcoming storm to deal with any problems the storm might inflict. This leftme, my mother, and older brother alone.

I don't know if it was because I was so young, or the storm, but I can't remember anything scarier. I remeber wishing my father was at home with us. The wind howled steady, it sounded like a loud train running at top speed just outside the door. There were no streetlights on our street just pitch dark . The lights went off early into the storm so streetlights would have been of little help anyway . 

The rain came down in waves . I remember my mother trying to keep up with the constant mopping as the windswept rain poured under our door. You could hear objects pelting the house and we waited in fear of something blowing through the window or the house from it's foundation . I thought for sure we were going to die.

In the morning when we went outside we found large trees uprooted  everywhere . My grandfather lived across the street, about 1000 ft. from our house he had a pile of pine lumber stacked . It wasn't stacked anymore , as the storm had picked it up and strewn it everywhere . It's lucky none were blown through anybody's window .

This may not sound as climatic as others accounts of the storm but to a 6yr. old boy who had never witnessed anything like it , it really was like the end of the world .

Richard Allen