George Nero Suffolk, VA.
My memory of the flood was my mother getting my brother and me out of bed before dawn. We lived on Route 44 between Winsted and Norfolk. She said to get up now: Winsted was wiped off the map. To this day I don't know how she knew.

After it became daylight , we could see the raging river in the lower pasture. My father said we will walk down the old railroad tracks if possible or go over the mountain if we had to, to get his mother and father out of their house on Meadow Street.

I remember getting them out and a few others out of their homes using a rope to hang on to. I also remember seeing a two-story house float down the river.