Carl Bishop: The Storm of 1931

I come down through it. Trees were falling in front of me and behind me. It was sleet that fell on the trees, and it pulled trees down that were that big around. I had daddy’s old shotgun. I come down there at the creek. It was out. I throwed the gun across the creek. It hit the ice across the trees. Came back and stuck up in the mud in the water. I crawled on across a foot log and I got my feet wet going across and I hit it and went on across, and I pulled this much of the stock sticking out; reached down got hold of it and picked it up. And my brother Denver has still got that old shotgun I pulled out of the mud.