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But gradually, fat thunderclouds slid over the horizon, trailing darker, more ominous, bluish gray thickness. Within an hour from the seaside house, so generously shared by our sister and brother-in-law, traffic backups jammed the oppo site, northward-bound highway lanes. Was everyone fleeing the beaches? We hit the car radio but ton for local weather reports. Bob was headed straight up the coast. And two generations of family were already settled in at the beach house. “What hurricane?” they collec tively asked on our arrival. So busy had they been with “beach stuff’ and playing games, no one had turned on a radio or picked up a newspaper. Though clouds hung heavy over the sand and moderate waves, the still, humid air belied the hurri cane warnings issued every few minutes on the weather radio. With the storm’s center predicted to pass a hundred miles farther east over the Atlantic, no one on the south Delaware shore seemed too concerned. Flashlights, batte ries, water, food and gas, howev er, were reportedly selling like hotcakes. A slow drizzle starting near midnight hinted at the fulfillment of the weathermen’s warnings. Our cars had gas, we had run a small supply of fresh water - and CONCRETE WALLS’INC \ \p\ For All Your Concrete • Buildings • Basements Specializing In Manure Storage, Round Or Rectangular, In-Ground Or Above-Ground Invest In Concrete, Quality Work That Will Last A Lifetime CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES AND SEE HOW AFFORDABLE CONCRETE WALLS CAN BE 2) P) E fl © E CONCRETE rREyJuE walls, me. 601 Overly Grove Road, New Holland, PA 17557 ail we could do was go to sleep and wait it out. By dawn, Bob had noisily arrived. Gusts of wind whistled between the sturdy houses and through beach pines. Waves crashed, if you could hear them over the wind. Mists of moisture soaked porches and poked through cracks of windows left up for fresh air. And as quickly as he came, Bob blew off, leaving counter clockwise swirling cloud patterns over the coast that even before lunch parted to bright sunshine. But ahead of and behind him, Bob churned the weather enough back at home to give us more rain than had fallen in the past three months (Continued from Page B 12) They have been driving bus for 35 recent years she does not take the years. time to enter her projects. Some When the farm work isn’t press ing, Marian works on many diffe rent projects. It seems impossible to name a craft that Marian doesn’t do expertly. Among them, she cro chets intricate tablecloths, counted crosstitch, knits, macrames lawn chairs, canes chairs, and makes ceramics. In the past, she has won top prizes at Bloomsburg Fairs, but in This Intricate crochet tablecloth is only one of the many projects that Marian Snyder made that took first prize at the Bloomsburg Fair. Walls And Construction Needs Agriculture - Residential - Commercial 60’ Diameter SCS-Approved Manure Pit • Footer • Retaining Walls • Floors • Manure Storage Pits • All Types Of Flat Work Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 31, 1991-815 Workaholics CONTACT STEVE PETERSHEIM 717-354-2780 and coax touches of green from our barren, brown pastures and lawns. Bob brought powerful waves, closed beaches for a day, stirred rain at home and detoured us from the surf to snagging crabs for sup per with chicken necks dangled on lines from a back bay floating pier. While he wreaked consider able havoc elsewhere, Bob left us with only memories of a little extra seaside excitement and much-needed moisture. Next time we need summer rain. I’ll just volunteer to go to the beach. It’s a tough job - but I think I’m up to it. skills she has learned from her mother and mother-in-law, but much of her expertise has been picked up by studying instructions from Penn State’s at-home courses. Marian is an adament supporter of Penn State’s courses. “Working is fun. I wouldn’t want to sit and do nothing,” she said.
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