Cape Elizabeth and the Storm of 1947: Lighthouse Memories

March 3, 1947 This is a day long to be remembered. The wind blew up to 80 miles per hour and it rained and sleeted all night. There was no electric power from 4 pm the day before until noon on this date. We had to keep the generator operating all the time after the tower optic was placed in operation. We used an Aladdin lamp until it went dry, then I found a lamp that had some oil in it.