Page 101 - Winterling's Chasing the Wind

One hot summer day, I placed a thermometer in a car to reveal how hot it got inside.
When I told Dick Stratton that it was 110 degrees, he asked me “Where are you going
to take the temperature next?” I couldn’t think of anything but to just look back at him
and say, “You’d be surprised!”

We had a night watchman, Harold Benn, who came to Jacksonville from Connecticut.
He enjoyed telling me about his experiences with hurricanes Connie and Diane in 1955
that came with less of a week apart. He had a vivid memory of the disastrous floods that
ripped through the river valleys racing towards the sea.

I always wanted to share more than just weather maps with my viewers, so I purchased
a surplus World War II 16 mm Victor camera from a pawn shop on Main Street and
took pictures whenever I encountered a thunderstorm and flooded streets, the ladies’
skirts on a windy day at the Prudential Building, or the boater seeking shelter from the
white-capped waves of the St. Johns River.

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