Thought for the Day (Oct 6)

Subject: Thought for the Day (Oct 6)
From: Peter T.
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:37 PM

Sorry, won't be here tomorrow....
Does this sound familiar, folkies?:

On October 27, 1998, Hurricane Mitch, the "most destructive storm to hit the Caribbean in 2 centuries" trapped and pulverized the large sailing vessel, the Fantome, which had been trying desperately to get out of its way for 3 days, and whenever it changed course, the Hurricane changed course to intercept it. At the height of the hurricane, winds of 208 m.p.h. were recorded, the highest ever, and islands 20 miles to the north of the last known whereabouts of the ship were later reported as looking as if they had been blown up. The crew was lost, only small fragments of the Fantome have ever been found, and the hurricane went on to kill 11,000 people in Central America.
"Early on the morning of the 28th, the Captain's fiancee, who was in England, had an unsettling dream. 'I knew they'd lost contact with the ship,' Annie Bleasdale recalls, 'but I didn't think anything of it; that often happens in storms. But early the next morning I dreamed that he was with me in bed. He was dressed in white, and in the dream I knew that he wouldn't be there when I woke up, that this was goodbye.'"

(from the New Yorker, October 11th issue, "The Ship That Vanished" by John Vaillant).

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day (Oct 6)
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 11:14 PM

Gawd, there's a ballad in that! How sad.