Yeah, my wife, she wanted to come back here. That's the reason we came
back. If it had been on that road over there right at the creek, now I
don't know—
[interruption] We might
would've been in about like a lot of them did, but over here on this
back street— I've heard my wife's uncle saying back that was along
before me and
Page 31her got married that the water had
been high enough behind the house to catch
[unclear] pumps in it, but the water hadn't ever come up to
the house. This is the first time. Some of them claim that it had been a
hundred years. I know when my uncle died, my wife's uncle died, he was
about close to eighty years old then, and he said he hadn't ever seen
the water up to come up to nobody's house. Okay, I know I've been in
this world ever since he died, and I haven't seen any water nowhere in
the ditch even come up in the ditch from the creek. This was the first
time. Now back here, I don't know if it was in the '70s or what the
water got high enough to come up under the trestle down there—up on
those cross ties. What happened, the water was blocked off across on the
other side. You couldn't go across the bridge. You had to go up yonder
and come down and come into Grifton. You couldn't come across this
bridge now. I've seen the water that high, but I haven't seen the water
come, it didn't come out of the creek. I was working down at the sewing
factory.
[interruption]