tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534840576496087146.post1655356741012935801..comments2024-03-14T06:56:40.915-07:00Comments on Early Levittown NY and Beyond -- By Frank Barning and Friends: Hurricane Carol inundated Levittown, August 1954Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534840576496087146.post-10368037646263880702011-05-16T20:01:47.862-07:002011-05-16T20:01:47.862-07:00I was only 4 years old then, but I remember my old...I was only 4 years old then, but I remember my older brother going out to the back yard to tie the patio furniture to the apple tree to keep it from flying away. I remember the storm hitting then seeming to stop, and I thought it was over. I heard my mother say it was just the eye of the storm, but I had no idea what that meant. Then a while later, the storm came back with a vengeance. We lived at the bottom of Schoolhouse Road where it met Valley Road for two years, before moving up Schoolhouse Road to the top of the hill into #37 where we lived from 1954 to 1975.Wendy Max Dunford '68https://www.blogger.com/profile/12293496898827879196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534840576496087146.post-67317888749917467512010-12-04T03:29:26.619-08:002010-12-04T03:29:26.619-08:00From Jo-Ann Martin Fink, who provided the photos.....From Jo-Ann Martin Fink, who provided the photos...<br />Here is a little info on the flood picture. The one looking across to Hilltop is taken from the upstairs of 6 Hilltop Road. This was the home of Harold and Paulette Gast. They left Levittown a few years later and moved to Lawrence and then to California. Harold Gast was a writer and producer. (A Woman named Golda)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534840576496087146.post-6973226750817939042010-12-03T18:18:20.187-08:002010-12-03T18:18:20.187-08:00From Sandy Adams...
I also remember Hurricane Caro...From Sandy Adams...<br />I also remember Hurricane Carol. When the winds began to really pick up, my mother sent me out into the back yard to hold on to the new, small Weeping Willow, so that it wouldn’t get blown down and uprooted or broken. I didn’t last too long at my assignment – I was having too much trouble trying to keep my (then small) body erect!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2534840576496087146.post-41719061396355150382010-12-02T06:03:42.061-08:002010-12-02T06:03:42.061-08:00Thanks for that story. I remember the storm vivid...Thanks for that story. I remember the storm vividly. We were living on Woodpecker Lane in the ranch with the fireplace on both sides, kitchen and living room. The water from the storm just poured down the chimney and we were flooded and mopping for hours. I really love all the old stories about Levittown, it was a great place to grow up. Thanks for giving your time to this effort.<br /> Joan Bartels Signorelli, class of 1962Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com