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The 1938 hurricane hit Long Island and then moved on to Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, killing 600-800 people along the way. The hurricane was so devastating ...
A building in the northern reaches of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, that was destroyed in the 1938 hurricane NOAA Photo Library/Donated by Susan Medyn, Tiverton, Rhode Island A storm formed in ...
TOMORROW, NEW ENGLAND WILL MARK 75 YEARS SINCE THE HURRICANE OF 1938. STORMTEAM5 STORMTEAM5 DANIELLE VOLLMAR LOOKS BACK AT THE STORM THAT NEVER GOT A GAME BUT WILL NEVER BE FOREGOT AGAIN IT WAS ...
The Hurricane of 1938 was massive and fast-moving, blasting from southern New England through New Hampshire in a single day. "We didn't get a warning on how severe it was," said Roger Levesque ...
In 1938, the SouthCoast was struck by an intense hurricane with almost no warning, leaving the area in shambles. The storm was a Category 5 hurricane that traveled extremely rapidly up the East ...
PORTLAND (WGME) -- This September marks 86 years since the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, which remains a benchmark storm for all future New England tropical systems. Let's go back to the ...
In the aftermath of the Hurricane of 1938, more aspects of the disaster became clear. Drinking water was potentially contaminated. Twenty thousand miles of electric and telephone lines had been ...
Whale Rock Preserve offers a glimpse of a tiny island offshore that once held a lighthouse, until the historic Hurricane of 1938 struck. The 112-acre sanctuary is popular with anglers, hikers ...
1938: With no computers to track tropical systems, the hurricane of 1938 was a worst-case scenario.In some areas, 10 inches of rain fell, rivaling the water levels of the catastrophic flood just ...
On September 21, 1938 one of the most violent storms to impact ... This was the only category 3 hurricane to strike Connecticut in recorded history. Sustained wind speeds reached 115 mph in ...
Yet for old timers in town, Sandy couldn't hold a candle to the big one -- the great New England hurricane of 1938 The Hurricane of 1938 hit the Greenwich area on Sept. 21, a school day.