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A State Of Shock
By early afternoon on Aug. 19, 1955, the rain has stopped, the clouds have parted, and the sun is shining on Friday. Ed Durant, who has been sitting naked in a tree amid the roiling brown waters of the flooded Farmington River for several hours, welcomes...Tags: Weather, Torrington, Naugatuck River, Rivers, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Waterbury's Flood Casualties
courant.comWaterbury police began telling people to evacuate the apartment houses on North Riverside Street around 2:45 a.m. on Aug. 19 but the Naugatuck River rose so quickly it was soon impossible to walk away. Firefighters struggled, often in vain, to reach...Tags: Naugatuck River, Health and Safety at Work, Floods, Family, Disasters and Accidents
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Waterbury: Worried About Dad
Ocala, FlaI remember the Flood of 1955. I was about 8 and lived in the Waterbury projects, had to boil water and find Wolcott residents that would give us free water to drink. My dad at the time was working at Scoville in Waterbury. The day it started to rain,...Tags: Floods, Disasters and Accidents, Waterbury, Winsted, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Landscape Changed Forever
The Hartford CourantIt's been 50 years since familiar streams and brooks swelled into angry torrents that killed 87, smashed buildings, gutted communities and caused up to $400 million in damage. The wreckage was cleaned up long ago, and those unfamiliar with where the...Tags: Connecticut, Torrington, Rivers, Economy, Business and Finance, Road Transportation
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Remembering The Moment: Stories Awful And Wonderful
Courant Staff WritersBruce Pratt remembers standing on his front porch in Winsted 50 years ago and watching a building across the street being chewed from its foundation. Pratt was 4, and he recalls his parents saying that the building was going to go and that people were...Tags: Connecticut, Torrington, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Disasters and Accidents, Maine
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His Honor, Mayor Philip A. Giordano: Vain, Power-Hungry, Sexually Obsessed And Increasingly Reckless
The Hartford CourantTo the extent that such events can be fixed in time, the moment Mayor Philip A. Giordano's obsession with sex jumped from back-alley gossip to pressing political business occurred at the end of a corny downtown Christmas pageant. Giordano backers, the...Tags: Kentucky Derby, Bars and Clubs, Tavern on the Green, FBI, Economy, Business and Finance
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Milford Point: Wildlife Oasis
The Hartford CourantWere it not for a handful of places like Milford Point, the densely developed coastline through New Haven and Fairfield counties might seem devoid of anything natural. It is an urban, suburban and commercial tangle ablaze in artificial light at night...Tags: Connecticut, Conservation, Housatonic River, Endangered Species, Wetlands
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Waterbury: A Father Lost
FarmingtonThe Flood of '55 is always in my memory bank. My father was a fireman, retired, working for Naugatuck Chemical. He had many friends working in the flood area. On Aug. 26, 1955, a week after the flood began, he went to work at 8 a.m. and died while...Tags: Floods, Disasters and Accidents, Waterbury, Foods and Beverages, Death
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How Did They Die? The State Won't Say
The corpse-of-the-day in Dr. Jack Hasson's pathology class was the alabaster cadaver of a young mentally retarded woman, ready to be dissected for the benefit of University of Connecticut medical students.
Lisa Barry's body was a welcome training tool....Tags: Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut), Old Lyme, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Justice System, Family
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Sgt. David Travis Friedrich
The Hartford CourantArmy Sgt. David Travis Friedrich of Naugatuck, a member of the 325th Military Intelligence Company in Waterbury, died Sept. 20, 2003 when mortars hit a U.S. base near the Abu Ghraib prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad. He was 26 years old. ------...Tags: U.S. Army, Building Material, Metal and Mineral, Baghdad (Iraq), John G. Rowland
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Archive: Lawmakers Seek Removal Of Gay Flag At Capitol
The Hartford CourantFour Republican legislators, outraged that the ``gay pride'' flag has been flying over the state Capitol this week, are demanding that it be taken down immediately. But state officials, responding to a letter sent to top legislators, said the flag will...Tags: Florida, Government, Ku Klux Klan, Corruption, T.R. Rowe
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Waterbury: Disruption Everywhere
Merrimack NHOn the morning of August 19, 1955, the drenching rain greeted our family as we set out on what appeared to be a normal workday, although obviously a very wet one. My Dad went to his job as a plumber at the American Brass Co., my brother went to his summer...Tags: Army National Guard, Naugatuck River, Floods, Disasters and Accidents, Waterbury
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