Mark Cooper, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 6, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 399

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MARK COOPER JUNE 6, 2001 ERM: But it never done any damage where the wind where I was particular. But they were really scary when you'd see them coming because the clouds were awful and they were real down low you know they weren't up they were real low. MAR: You'd see 'em come off and you'd see a big bank of clouds up about this high you know, in comparison. Then there'd be about this much light below em and they'd be coming in and they 'd just be rolling, like this, and boy scare the heck out of you. BEC: MAR: BEC: MAR: ERM: was really cold. MAR: ERM: Yeah. Kind of a helpless feeling. That's what they call the "blue northern" . Oh really? I guess some of them were really tough, too. Well, the blue north'ers come from the north and they were cold. That Yep. The temperature d always drop. And like I said, the houses ... none of the houses were sturdy and, boy you'd about freeze to death when those would come in. And all the houses had were little gas heaters, about like this, that sat around. They maybe had one in the living room and one in the bedroom and something like that. But because the houses were so frail you might say, why the cold, it was kind of bad. MAR: When we left there, we leased this little apatiment for a while and then we moved down south a little farther. A buddy of mine and his wife had an apartment there and there was one come vacant. So we moved down there. It was a cute little place but it was built on, kind of like pylons, like this big square, and underneath 53