'Gamblers Of The Soil' Prepare For Hurricane Irene

(Hartford Courant) As workers scrambled Thursday morning to harvest broadleaf tobacco in anticipation of heavy rain in the afternoon and a hurricane this weekend, Howard Horton's thoughts went back to 1938.
"That was the worst to ever hit us," the 87-year-old farmer said of the devastating hurricane. Horton's family has been farming in the Nayaug section of South Glastonbury for more than 150 years. "Both wind and rain, and then the Connecticut River crested at nearly the highest point ever recorded. But we survived. We are gamblers of the soil." Continued