My mother is a veteran of the Hurricane of &#039;38, she was 8 years old at the time. During the two hurricanes (one was Hazel, I think?) which caused the Flood of 1955, she was pregnant with me and living in East Norwalk at her mother&#039;s house with a foot of water in the kitchen. I can remember sitting on my grandmother&#039;s screened porch when I was somewhere between 19-22 during another hurricane whose name I forget, and we stayed up all night listening to the rain and wind. Gloria in 1985 knocked my power out for a week and we had to use 3 coolers to store the perishables, but I honestly don&#039;t remember anything worse than that from Gloria - but I can sure remember worse Nor&#039;easters than hurricanes! The Nor&#039;easter they now call &quot;The Perfect Storm&quot; (that the movie was made about) put 5 feet of water and a dinghy in my cousin&#039;s living room in Harbor View off South Norwalk. And the Nor&#039;easter we had just this past March took down more trees in that one storm than any hurricane I&#039;ve seen during my lifetime.