Despite the tragedies of the 1936 Connecticut River Floods, there were a few silly happenings here and there!

>Not all of the news was grim. Lawyer Arthur Wadleigh dropped a fishing line into his basement and caught a 15-inch pickerel. >In Uxbridge flood waters washed away soil revealing a safe that was stolen in Boston the month before. >A photograph was published of a Chicopee husband and wife with a placid Brown Swiss cow watching the flood go by from a second-floor balcony. ___________________________ **Source:** Pletcher, Larry. “The Connecticut River Floods.” *Massachusetts Disasters: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival*. Insiders Guide, 2006. 130-31. Print. ___________________________ **Further Reading:** [The Flood of 1936](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_River#The_flood_of_1936)