Remember this? The Old Lyme Marketplace parking lot looked a little different in February of this year after the Blizzard of 2013 …

The theme of this year’s annual report, which will be presented to the public at the annual town meeting Jan. 27, 2014, is the two storms that pummeled our area during the past fiscal year – Super-Storm Sandy in October 2012 and the blizzard of February 2013.  Both seemed pretty unpleasant at the time and caused inconvenience, discomfort, physical damage, and loss of work and school, among other problems.

What are your most vivid memories or funny or interesting stories?  Halloween cancelled and then rescheduled on Lyme Street?  Going without power and long evenings in the semi-dark?  School cancelled for days in a row?  Trips to Big Y for  evening meals, one night at a time?

What did you miss most – hot coffee?  Television and radio?  Indoor plumbing?  Heat?  Lights?

Contributions from children, as well as adults, are welcome.

Share any and all of your stories with editor Michele Dickey for inclusion in the two to five page (depending on how many stories are received) introduction of the report.  Indicate if you would be willing to be identified or wish to remain anonymous, such as, “One resident remembers…”

E-mail your remembrances and anecdotes to Dickey on or before Sunday, Dec. 15, to: micheledickey@sbcglobal.net. Readers can also leave hand-written or hard copies in the Old Lyme Selectman’s office, where Dickey has a temporary mailbox.  Include a phone number in case the editor has questions.

Thanks for helping with this section of the town report so we can recall the storms in the warmth and comfort of our own homes this time around!