Show EAST WINDS w E EP N By IRIS From my own experience I have concluded that a sir si- silent lent conspiracy ex exists among old time residents of Davis County They never mention East Winds to newcomers newcomers Let Let them find out for tor themselves theme them selves MY IY OWN introduction to the breezes that zoom down downour downour our mountains is not one of my favorite memories Two am a.m. of a morning in earl early May quite a few years ago ago my husband and I made a amad amad mad dash for Salt Lake City In a traditional race with the stork That's unnerving enough under the best cir cir- stances but tooling along in ina ina a light car that threatens to blow over when it isn't travelling s dew a y s i 1 s enough to make prospective mother give up the whole idea and go home There have been East Winds before and since But it was the J night of Oct 30 1959 that lave thOse of us who went through It a corn com To this day the barest hint of a breeze sends most of us galloping outside with shutters hammers ham ham- mers and a frantic sion bion IT DIDN'T seem scent so bad badat badat at first that wind At ten pm p.m. it was more a nuisance than a threat But by midnight midnight mid mid- night it sounded liS as though a freIght train had found a track feet up and was travelling with its whistle stuck Assorted deb debris r i s slammed against our oui house rocks banged into Ute the windows win win- dows and to add to the fun the lights went out Right after that the windows windows win win- dows started to go Ive I've had some good times but Im I'm not going to remember ping around broken glass in my bare feet teet while the wind screamed wildly through my bedroom as one of them Finally Fi- Fi sally nally we closed off the eastend east eastend end of the house huddled en masse in tile the living room and let Ute the chips fall where they would WIZEN WIlEN IT began to get light we looked outside and g gradually the destruction became be be- came visible Across the street a heavy trailer lay on its side A redwood fence had the night before enclosed en en- closed a neighbors yard Now It didn't Every house houseIn In sight had broken windows with tattered draper 1 e S s streaming Strange garbage cans roofing shingles tree limbs and tumbleweeds flew lIew past BY NOON tile the wind h had d subsided and the sightseers began to drive through our area It isn't a pleasant feeling feel feel- ing to know that strangers cluck sympathetically sympathetically I when 4 they view what's left of your home We were days getting straightened out But I must say cleaning those east bedrooms bed bed- rooms gave me a sense of accomplishment I rare 1 y have To get three dustpans full of rocks and dirt a box of broken glass eight large strips of tarpaper and parts of three trey out ot of the house cant can't be done normally normal normal- ly And that was out of one closet THERE were weird events reported One boys boy ran Into hs his house shouting Somebody Somebody Some body heres here's a stealer When his mother asked what he he said Theres tour four wheelbarrows in our backyard and none ot of them are ours The mailman mallman told me it upset him to walk up to a house with the mall mail to find the mailbox missing but he found it even more unnerving when the whole house was gone After we had rime window win win- down dow part of the roof rain gutters and other items repaired re re- paired and had burned Ute the tumbleweeds and pieces of redwood patio we Icil heir to towe towe we settled back to almost normal living Never quite normal As Davis County residents who have survived one of the big ores we live with an 1111 ear cocked to th east |