WT963 - Stormy Wind's a Blowin' - 08/24/2023

Cook22 · 08-17-2023, 04:05 AM

Happy Thursday to you all. It's my turn to host this week, and my challenge is inspired by the fact that in 1735 the Great Colonial Hurricane affected the Virginia Colony at Jamestown. There seem to be so many storms and hurricanes now: it makes me glad that I live in a temperate climate, even if I'd prefer a little more sunshine.

From Wikipedia: Much of the area between Providence, Rhode Island and the Piscataqua River was damaged by the storm, and some damage was still noticeable 50 years later. Governor Bradford wrote that the storm drowned 17 Indians and toppled or destroyed thousands of trees; many houses were also flattened.

The small barque Watch and Wait owned by a Mr. Isaac Allerton foundered in the storm off Cape Ann with 23 people aboard. The only survivors were Antony Thacher and his wife, who reached Thacher Island.

In Narragansett Bay, the tide was 14 feet (4.3 m) above the ordinary tide and drowned eight Indians fleeing from their wigwams. The highest recorded tide for a New England Hurricane was a 22-foot (6.7 m) storm tide recorded in some areas. The town of Plymouth suffered severe damage with houses blown down. The wind blew down mile-long swathes in the woods near Plymouth and elsewhere in eastern Massachusetts. It also destroyed Plymouth Colony's Aptucxet Trading Post in Bourne, Massachusetts.

The Boston area did not suffer from the tide as did areas to its south. The nearest surge swept over the low-lying tracts of Dorchester, ruining the farms and landscape, according to the accounts of Bradford and Winthrop.

The ships James and Angel Gabriel had just anchored off the New England coast, full of colonial settlers from England, and they were caught in the storm. The James survived but the Angel Gabriel was wrecked at Pemaquid, Maine. An account from The Cogswells in America states: "'The storm was frightful at Pemaquid, the wind blowing from the northeast, the tide rising to a very unusual height, in some places more than twenty feet right up and down; this was succeeded by another and unaccountable tidal wave still higher.' The Angel Gabriel became a total wreck, passengers, cattle, and goods were all cast upon the angry waves. Three or four passengers and one seaman perished, and there was the loss of cattle and much property.

So my challenge to you is to feature storms or windy images. If you don't have anything like this, you can use techniques using blowing - blowing alcohol ink, blowing bubbles for a background.

Once you've created your card inspired by this week's challenge, upload it with the keyword WT963, and then come back and share a link here - that makes it easy for people to find your card in case of typos or gallery glitches.

Here's a link to our WT963 Stormy Wind's a Blowin' gallery

Here's a link to my sample:
WT963 Windy Day by Cook22 at Splitcoaststampers

If you're not sure how to add a link, here's how:
1. Open 2 windows or tabs: one for your card in the gallery, and one for this thread
2. In this thread, click on reply and type anything you want to show before the link.
3. Go to your card window. Highlight the address for your card. (It says www. splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showphoto..... and so on)
4. Click EDIT. Click COPY
5. Go back to this thread. Click PASTE.

Thanks as always to the team for their inspiring samples.

hobbydujour · 08-24-2023, 03:23 AM

Thanks for the challenge, Sabrina.

RAINS'S APPROACHING

Crafty Julia · 08-24-2023, 06:18 AM

What a great challenge Sabrina! The stories were interesting too

For my card, I went with a cloudy, rather threatening sky- and a girl sailing along with her paper and greenery "kite"- adding some sparkle with stickles, and finishing with a double circle sentiment element.
Here's Fly'ng By!