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Wind Story
12/13/2002
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Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton for The Weather Notebook.
CK: I remember, thanks to the tail end of Hurricane Danielle, emceeing the grand finale of a
story-telling festival held on Ireland's southern-most island; I happened to look past the
storyteller and the crowd to the ferry boat captain outside, signaling me with urgency.
BY: Commentator, Chuck Kruger.
CK: So, after thanking the storyteller and urging the crowd to be reseated in exactly twenty
minutes, I hustled over to where the captain fidgeted. There'd be no more ferries leaving
Cape that day. The seas had grown desperate. The hurricane had this afternoon hit the
Fastnet Lighthouse just four miles further out to sea than Cape with three waves that had
exploded over the top of the 183-foot tower. So, when the crowd reassembled, I broke the
news. I expected to be booed off the stage, but the 300 souls just sat there stunned. I
hadn't a clue as to how they were digesting the news. Then, they started to applaud. They
were realizing that Danielle had marooned them eight miles out to sea on a little island
filled with stories. Early Monday morning down on the pier, the captain decided that it was
safe to sail. After all the ritual goodbye's, I couldn't forget that, as the African Bushman
has it, a story is like the wind. It comes from a far off quarter and we feel it.
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