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Lucky Charms
Courant Staff WriterWhen you are shot at a few times a week, it's easy to be superstitious. Most of Charlie Company's Marines practice their personal traditions and carry their tokens and charms. Any object can become magical when it reaches a war zone. Some of the magic...Tags: Winsted (Winchester, Connecticut), Plainville, California, Thomaston, Iraq
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Storrs: The Dam Held
Towson, Md.We lived in Storrs. The Mansfield Hollow Dam was filled to the brim and saved us from horrible flooding. A few days later we drove to the Catskills and went through the town of Winsted. We saw what had been Main St. HUGE pieces of asphalt were heaved...Tags: Floods, Disasters and Accidents, Storrs
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Winsted: River Gone Mad
SouthingtonHere I am reading about my hometown, Winsted in The Courant for the last few days. There is Main Street, where our dog washed down from my father's pickup truck, and was saved in front of the Catholic church on the hill. My brother and father were on the...Tags: The Salvation Army, Vehicles, Christianity, Southington
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Winsted: Missing Home
Santa Ana, Calif.I was 8 years old. It seemed like it had been raining for days. I think we were getting on my mom's nerves. I can remember her sending my sister and me and some neighbor kids to the movies in a taxi. We saw Lady and the Tramp. When we came out it was...Tags: Floods, Santa Ana, Massachusetts, California, Disasters and Accidents
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Torrington: 'Half The Town Is Gone'
Windsor LocksI was 15 and living in Torrington. I helped give out food and water with the Red Cross. My dad, Ernest Signorelli, who was the carpentry instructor at Oliver Wolcott Technical School, worked to clean up and rebuild the town. After all was cleaned up,...Tags: Floods, Torrington, Disasters and Accidents, Windsor Locks, Palace Theater
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Winsted: Piles Of Rubble
MiddletownHow well I remember - on returning from a car trip to Maine, it began to rain, and it kept raining. When it was over, we couldn't get to Winsted from our home in Winchester, so we had to walk. My mother, dad and my sisters and I walked for what seemed...Tags: Delaware, Rivers, Middletown, Maine, Winsted (Winchester, Connecticut)
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Canaan: High Water Mark
South WindsorI was eleven years old and at summer camp in Canaan when the flood came. I was in a building where my room was at the equivalent of a fourth story, and the water stopped just below my window. By the time my parents were able to get to Canaan to bring...Tags: Floods, Disasters and Accidents, South Windsor
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When Rivers Raged
The Hartford CourantAugust 1955 is in black and white. It is mom, pop and apple pie, rabbit ears, The Mick, Ike, "Rock Around the Clock," blue collars, Reds, polio, Lucky Strikes, and weather. On the 12th and 13th of the month, the tail end of Hurricane Connie had passed,...Tags: Weather, Government, Natural Disasters, Tropical Weather, Tropical Storms
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Waterbury: Worried About Dad
Ocala, FlaI remember the Flood of 1955. I was about 8 and lived in the Waterbury projects, had to boil water and find Wolcott residents that would give us free water to drink. My dad at the time was working at Scoville in Waterbury. The day it started to rain,...Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Floods, Disasters and Accidents, Naugatuck, Waterbury
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Winsted: Fear And Amazement
WinstedMid-August to a 16 year old high school girl meant there was only a couple more weeks of vacation to enjoy before I'd go back to The Gilbert School for my junior year. That it rained every day for a week was annoying but I was a bookish kid and could...Tags: Floods, Disasters and Accidents, Colebrook
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Winsted: 'Wiped Off The Map'
Suffolk, VA.My memory of the flood was my mother getting my brother and me out of bed before dawn. We lived on Route 44 between Winsted and Norfolk. She said to get up now: Winsted was wiped off the map. To this day I don't know how she knew. After it became...Tags: Floods, Disasters and Accidents
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