Flood doesn't stop new baby I remember it well. I went into labor for my daughter. She was born at 12:50 A.m. on 4/2/87.

We lived in Pittston at the time. I was at my mom's in Augusta during the day but thought everything was all right. My husband picked me up after work and we drove home for about two hours when I realized I was in labor. Roads were washed out and we had to go all around back roads in Whitefield to get to MaineGeneral. Thankfully my doctor, John Garofalo, could not get home to Hallowell and had stayed at the hospital. It was something. The next morning I remember watching part of a house floating down the Kennebec River from my hospital window.

We always call my daughter Courtney our "flood baby."

Sharon Wildes

Augusta