Hurricane Carol Lashes Rhode Island Book August 31 1954 Providence Journal TG6
Hurricane Carol Lashes Rhode Island Book August 31 1954 Providence Journal TG6
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Hurricane Carol Lashes Rhode Island Book August 31 1954 Providence Journal TG6
IN 1954 Rhode Island realized it must learn how to
live with hurricanes. The hard fact was driven home, leaving no chance to rationalize. Another huge cyclonic storm, spawned in the subtropics, had come and gone. Banshee winds and massive tides had done their savage work once more.
Sixteen years before, on September 21, 1938, the greatest hurricane in Rhode Island history raged across the state leaving 317 dead and $100,000,000 in property damage in its wake. It was a freak, said many as they picked through the debris, and will never happen again.
But in 1944, in the predawn darkness of September 14, there was grim warning that this was not the case. Another hurricane zeroed in upon the state, smashed down thousands of trees, ripped at roofs and roared impotently along the shores, its power impaired by an unfavorable tide.
Then on August 31, 1954, the lesson was learned.
Hurricane Carol Lashes Rhode Island Book August 31 1954 Providence Journal TG6
IN 1954 Rhode Island realized it must learn how to
live with hurricanes. The hard fact was driven home, leaving no chance to rationalize. Another huge cyclonic storm, spawned in the subtropics, had come and gone. Banshee winds and massive tides had done their savage work once more.
Sixteen years before, on September 21, 1938, the greatest hurricane in Rhode Island history raged across the state leaving 317 dead and $100,000,000 in property damage in its wake. It was a freak, said many as they picked through the debris, and will never happen again.
But in 1944, in the predawn darkness of September 14, there was grim warning that this was not the case. Another hurricane zeroed in upon the state, smashed down thousands of trees, ripped at roofs and roared impotently along the shores, its power impaired by an unfavorable tide.
Then on August 31, 1954, the lesson was learned.
