It came in on the phone lines and it blew the flipping phone completely off the wall and then w-- wet the ground under the old cistern pump.

Speaker: We had a pump in the yard which served the purposes in the house as well as, a cistern which is still there, down below the pantries and one year, ah, there hadn't been enough rain. I remember my father- husba-- oh, this was a little later, going to the river and bringing home water and putting it in the cistern and watering the- the stock from that, but that's a little later, yes. Interviewer: The water that would come into the cistern, where'd- where did it come from? Speaker: Yeah- ah, from the eavedrop-- eavedroppings around the house. Interviewer: Oh isn't that a smart idea? And how would you get it from the cistern into the- up to the- Speaker: From a little hand pump at that sink.

Speaker: And then there was the wood furnace in the main part and then in the back part was the cistern- 0 Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: To collect rainwater.

And we didn't have- we h-- we had this cistern, we built a big cement tank affair in the basement and we ran the water off the roof into this cistern and that we used for our first bathroom, and bathtub, and laundry and-so-on.

The basement in the house, of course, was never heat- heated and, ah, because there was a cistern there it kept a certain amount of dampness there.