Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Extreme Weather or Natural Disaster Experiences

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1) Did extreme weather or a natural disaster ever affect you or your ancestor(s)? In what way(s)? How did you find this out? Describe one or more of the extreme weather experiences in your own life or in your ancestors lives.ry.

2)  Share your information about you or your ancestor(s) extreme weather or natural disaster experiences in your own blog post, writing a comment on this blog post, or put it in a Substack post, Facebook Note, or some other social media system.  Please leave a comment on this post so others can find it.

Thank you to Marian B. Wood for this SNGF idea.

Here's mine:

Living in San Diego all of my life, I  have not experienced an "extreme weather condition" or a "natural disaster" like a hurricane, a tornado, a firestorm, a blizzard, a really hot heat spell, a really cold spell, a flood, or a destructive earthquake.  Just luck through geography. [Knocking on wood!!!]

Most of my ancestry came through the northeast - New England, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ontario, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado.  I'm sure that many of my ancestors experienced extreme cold, blizzards, floods, and hurricanes.  They survived because they were prepared for the cold and rain. They were smart if they stayed out of the river valleys and stayed higher than the water level.

One of my ancestors experienced a tornado -- Rebecca (Spangler) Crringer (1832-1901). She and her family were residing in Washington County, Iowa in 1873 when a tornado hit nearby.  Rebecca was at a friend's home and suffered injuries but survived.  See Carringers in the News -- The Great Tornado of Washington County, Iowa in May 1873 in which "Mrs. Carringer" (I'm very sure this was Rebecca!) was listed as being injured.

I wrote a story about the experience using AI in Ask Claude AI: "Please Create a Dialogue Between Rebecca Carringer and Her Family About Surviving the Tornado" which included another story about Rebecca telling her grandson Lyle Carringer about the experience.

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