She remembers cooking on a gas stove, and they cooked day and night, everything they could find, steaks, fish and chicken, until they ran out of food. They were all washed off. We had no idea what they were. When I got home, there were 13 people taking shelter in my house. What a sight.
People recall strange facts after storms.
Kappy Kirk, who lives in Goodland, remembers being told that her uncle James Barfield ran a mercantile store in Caxambas in 1910. He found his bolts of cloth halfway up Indian Hill where they had floated on the flood waters. Some lumber came ashore from ships which foundered or lost cargoes off of the southern end of Marco, and the wood was salvaged to build four homes in Caxambas. Kirk still lives in one of them, now moved to Goodland. Kirk recalls talk of a high tidal surge around 1920 which almost ruined all the local crops.