Flood

Was thinking today, as I heard more news about the floods in the midwest, about this part of my life-
In the early 1930's my Dad built a beautiful cottage on Cayuga lake. He built it up high from the water & on cribbing filled with rock & stone all done by hand. It was a wonderful place with Fireplace, Hardwood floors, three bedrooms and a modern kitchen for that era. He built it himself with of course no power tools at that time. There were very few cottages at that time along Interlaken Beach
In the summer of 1935 when I was seven years old we started to spend summers there. Sometime during that summer the area had a large flood and rained for days. Dad had an old Model T & he tried to get us out in it as the lake started to rise. All the bridges by then were washed out, so he turned around and said we would have to spend the night at the cottage. By the time we got back to the cottage the lake had gone up several feet and it was getting dark. In the room I slept in there were double bunks. He put me in the top one & at that age I was scared & watched as the water came in and covered the floor. By morning it had covered the lower bunk.
Sometime that morning the rain had stopped & Uncle Floyd came up the lake by boat to get us out & we were all glad to see him. It wasn't too many weeks and we were back staying there again and guess it dried out, with not to much damage.
Later that week we drove to Trumasburg to see the damage there. You would probably not notice today but a large creek runs under Main Street. This came over the main street and washed a good chunk of it out, along with a business and some homes along the creek.
After this flood work was done on both ends of Cayuga Lake, so this could not happen again. I remember all this as if it was yesterday. Dad sold that cottage in 1944 I believe, while I was in the Navy, Jean in the Marines & Jackie at school in Rochester.
A note about this cottage & the dock-I could not swim at that time, but fell of the dock over my head and learned the doggy paddle in a hurry. Could in later years swim for a couple miles.