The storm took a similar track as the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 and the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944. The storm passed by the Outer Banks in North Carolina on September 10 ...

NARRAGANSETT – The Hurricane of 1938 blew and washed away the top of a lighthouse here, killing Walter B. Eberle, an assistant keeper. His body was never found, and the lighthouse, on an island ...

As the Blizzard of '78 is to snowstorms, the 1938 Hurricane is the storm to compare all other hurricanes against. The Blizzard of '78 was 47 years ago, so you'd have to be in your 50s now to remember ...