The Great Hurricane and Tidal Wave Rhode Island Sept 21, 1938 Paperback Book TG6
The Great Hurricane and Tidal Wave Rhode Island Sept 21, 1938 Paperback Book TG6
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The Great Hurricane and Tidal Wave Rhode Island Sept 21, 1938 Paperback Book TG6
ON the afternoon of September 21. 1938, a
hurricane of subtropical origin whirled out of the Atlantic Ocean and struck the northeast shore of the United States at Long Island. It advanced with ever-increasing speed and wind velocities - and Rhode Island stood directly in the path of its dangerous semi-circle.
Mounting winds and a blinding torrent of rain heralded this fury in mid-afternoon.
Before night fell, 312 men, women and children were dead and missing in this State and on the immediately adjacent shores of Massachusetts summer resorts; $100,000,000 worth of damage had been wrought from Westerly to Sakonnet Point and inland; entire beach communities had been wiped from the map, the State's contour was changed, beaches had been obliterated, thousands of trees and utility poles felled, yacht fleets smashed, sunk and flung up hundreds of feet beyond high water...
The Great Hurricane and Tidal Wave Rhode Island Sept 21, 1938 Paperback Book TG6
ON the afternoon of September 21. 1938, a
hurricane of subtropical origin whirled out of the Atlantic Ocean and struck the northeast shore of the United States at Long Island. It advanced with ever-increasing speed and wind velocities - and Rhode Island stood directly in the path of its dangerous semi-circle.
Mounting winds and a blinding torrent of rain heralded this fury in mid-afternoon.
Before night fell, 312 men, women and children were dead and missing in this State and on the immediately adjacent shores of Massachusetts summer resorts; $100,000,000 worth of damage had been wrought from Westerly to Sakonnet Point and inland; entire beach communities had been wiped from the map, the State's contour was changed, beaches had been obliterated, thousands of trees and utility poles felled, yacht fleets smashed, sunk and flung up hundreds of feet beyond high water...
