In 1948 in the two weeks preceding 12th. August four inches of rain had fallen each week saturating the soil, overflowing the streams and filling the rivers causing them to rise in minor spate. On the 12th. four to six inches fell and the streams and rivers rose to unprecedented heights causing flooding beyond memory. The flood water rose to eight feet high around the houses. Immense damage was done to the mill building and machinery as the flood swept through, twisting heavy machinery and leaving a devastation of silt and debris everywhere. In this recording Isabel Allan remembers her family coping with the event.