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1. Severe Weather

   

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   Once upon a time there was a man who lived in Cloontia. His name was Jimmy Geeves. The night of the big wind he was afraid his house would fall. He had to go on a message and he took his mother and tied her to a bush with a hemp rope & when he returned the bush and his mother was swept way and never seen from that day to this. Heard from: Kathleen Cryan Heard from her father Age 60 years John P. Cryan

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   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Cryan

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   John P. Cryan

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

2. Severe Weather

   

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   In the year of 1917 there was a memorable snow storm. There was snow drift 10 feet high in some places on the roads which blocked all traffic. In the case of a funeral 30 or 40 men could be seen shoveling a path through those snow-drifts on the road leading to the grave-yard. People who had to go to the shop had to clean a path before hand. The storm lasted 3 weeks. There were many accidents. The graveyard which people had to travel with the funeral was Mount Irwin. It

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