Riverhead High School - Blue Peconic Yearbook (Riverhead, NY)

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Above An uproored nee sirs precariously on the roof of the Tuthill Funero! Home located on Mom Street in IKiverheod Gloria was such o furious storm that the sight of trees suspend- ed above ground become o common sight WELCOME TO OVERHEAD WELCOME TO THE UNEXPECTED School-six ond o holt hours o doy. five days o | yourself for rhe unexpected Unforrunorely there's week, one hundred ond eighty days o year-sounds no real woy to do fhot. the things that go on in depressing, right? Wrongl If you stop to think obout it. Riverheod ore too unpredictable Who ever would those one hundred ond eighty days ore some of the hove guessed thot this year s budget would pass on most exciting days of your life Just think obout oil the rhe firy try? It Is on event like this thot mokes you yop little surprises thot breok up rhe boring doily routine ond wonder how it could hove possibly come obout tripping down the yoirs os you're talking to your Hurricone Gloria was certoinly on unexpected girlfriend, finding your locker won t open, foiling o development in our weather The yorm itself wasn t test, or opening your wollet ond finding thot all your o surprise: mereorologiys watched the hurricone as it money has disappeared crossed the Arionric ond turned up the coast The sur Of course, not oil surprises ore unpleosonr finding prising thing about Gloria was thot although she was your reocher is out ond you hove unassigned billed as the moy deyructive hurricone of the cerv (especiolly if you hod a test thot period), getting coil- fury. she weakened just before she hit Long Island. ed down to guidance during o particularly boring sparing us from any mojor destruction For LILCO. doss, or having o friend who has owed you money though, the domoge coused by rhe yorm was for obout three years finally pay you bock ore just devastating Their entire diyribufion syyem was some of rhe good things thot con hoppen during wiped out. ond Long Island was plunged into your doy It's those unexpected events that moke darkness On Saturday, the doy after, over rhree- rhe school doy bearoble I quarters of LILCO's cuyomers were without power. When you enter Riverheod. you should prepare | ond they discovered just how dependent they were 2 Opening

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WELCOME TO WELCOME TO THE on electricity When night fell, there wos nothing to do. A candlelight dinner may sound romontic. but ofter three or four nights, it begins to wear thin. No lights, no radio, and no television oil odded up to nothing to do For most, the storm wos only on inconve- nience. since their power wos restored in o few days. But for some, the storm wos more of o disaster They hod no power for over o week, so they lost oil their perishoble food This, plus the foct that they hod no running hot water, mode these people especially ongry or LILCO. Eventually though, things returned to normal for them. too. Hurricane Gloria didn't bring much roin. but the Homecoming weekend did. The down- IWERHEAD. UNEXPECTED. . . pour on Saturday ruined the floors and soaked the ground, but it didn't dampen the BLUE WAVES spirit And mony ogreed that the Homecoming donee was one of the best dances in o long rime. The rest of this book will tell you the story of 1966. the yeor of the unexpected Nobody could hove predicted the things to come in the beginning of the year, ond or the end. o quick look over your shoulder will tell you that where we've been is hard to believe This book conroins the things that happened in Riverheod: the good, the bod. ond the unexpected So. welcome to Riverheod os It wos in 1966 Welcome to the unexpected!