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Sybil Nassau Westbrook
I was 15 years old and home alone while my mother was in the hospital. The brook in our backyard kept rising and rising til it overflowed its banks into our basement; I was terrified we would float away.

A cousin who lived a few streets away braved the waters and drove over to get me. I was never so frightened in my life! After that we got a sump pump and a few years later the brook was trenched underground so it never happened again, at least in our neighborhood. But an overflowing Trout Brook caused major damage from one end of West Hartford to the other.