It happened in the year of the great flood and the big freeze. First came the rain. It had started to rain at the end of November and it went on running more or less without stopping till Christmas. The rivers rose until they flooded the low-lying land along third banks. GlenLochie was badly affected by the flooding. The bridge at Inverlachie was washed away in mid-November.That meant that the people with crofts and farms on the north side of the river were more or less cut off. It was just possible to get across the river by boat-but terribly dangerous.