Download or read book Scrapbook about the New England Hurricane of 1938 written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrapbook containing clippings from "Boston Traveler," "Boston Globe," "Time" and "Life" magazines about the destruction wreaked by a hurricane that struck southern New England on Sept. 21, 1938. The articles focused on the destruction of the Boston area, Cape Cod, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
Download or read book The Hurricane of 1938 written by Aram Goudsouzian and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping description of New England's storm of the century.
Download or read book Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings Concerning Floods of New England and Other States During the 1930 s and the New England Hurricane of 1938 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hurricane in Southern New England written by Bernard L. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Wind to Shake the World written by Everett S. Allen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling story of the hurricane of 1938, the worst New England storm of the 20th century, as told by a reporter whose first day on the New Bedford waterfront was the day the storm blew in.
Download or read book The Great Hurricane 1938 written by Cherie Burns and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Before there was the Perfect Storm, there was the Great Hurricane of 1938. A riveting and wonderfully written account.” —Nathaniel Philbrick On the night of September 21, 1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color in the sky, it was too late to escape. In an age before warning systems and the ubiquity of television, this unprecedented storm caught the Northeast off guard, obliterated coastal communities on Long Island and in New England, and killed nearly seven hundred people. The Great Hurricane, 1938 is a spellbinding hour-by-hour reconstruction of one of the most destructive and powerful storms ever to hit the United States. With riveting detail, Burns weaves together countless personal stories of loved ones lost and lives changed forever—from those of the Moore family, washed to sea on a raft formerly their attic floor, to Katharine Hepburn, holed up in her Connecticut mansion, watching her car take to the air like a bit of paper. “A very good book.” —The Washington Post
Download or read book The 1938 Hurricane written by William Elliott Minsinger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thirty Eight written by Stephen Long and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England’s most damaging weather event ever. To call it “New England’s Katrina” might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island and New England, killing hundreds of people and destroying roads, bridges, dams, and buildings that stood in its path. Not yet spent, the hurricane then raced inland, maintaining high winds into Vermont and New Hampshire and uprooting millions of acres of forest. This book is the first to investigate how the hurricane of ’38 transformed New England, bringing about social and ecological changes that can still be observed these many decades later. The hurricane’s impact was erratic—some swaths of forest were destroyed while others nearby remained unscathed; some stricken forests retain their prehurricane character, others have been transformed. Stephen Long explores these contradictions, drawing on survivors’ vivid memories of the storm and its aftermath and on his own familiarity with New England’s forests, where he discovers clues to the storm’s legacies even now. Thirty-Eight is a gripping story of a singularly destructive hurricane. It also provides important and insightful information on how best to prepare for the inevitable next great storm.
Download or read book The Hurricane of 1938 written by Chris Wisniewski and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oral history of the Hurricane of 1938 in southeastern Connecticut. Read memories from over 65 people who lived through the storm. Illustrated with more than 60 photographs, many never published before. The hurricane hit on September 21, 1938 with no warning. Wind speeds of 120 miles per hour tore roofs off of houses and schools, uprooted huge trees, and collapsed barns. In New London, a large part of the city burned. After the storm subsided, a tidal surge raced up the Thames River flooding the city of Norwich in places to a depth of eleven feet. Bridges were washed away, dams were washed out and the city was left cut off from all outside communication. Along the shore in Connecticut and Rhode Island, seaside communities were washed away, never to be rebuilt. Within three hours all of southeastern New England was devastated.This book also covers Norwich and its surrounding towns including: Preston, Griswold, Sprague, Canterbury, and Bozrah. Stories are also included from coastal towns such as New London, Lord's Point, and Watch Hill and Misquamicut, Rhode Island.Written in partnership with The Norwich Bulletin.
Download or read book Taken by Storm 1938 written by Lourdes B. Avilés and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York New England Hurricane and Floods 1938 written by American National Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mighty Storms of New England written by Eric P. Fisher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New England landscape has long been battered by some of the most intense weather in the United States. The region breeds one of the highest concentrations of meteorologists in the country for a reason. One can experience just about anything except a dust storm. Snowstorms, floods, droughts, heat waves, arctic blasts, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and other atmospheric oddities come and go with the changing seasons. Rare is the boring year of weather. Knowing the past is a critical part of understanding and forecasting the weather. Meteorologist Eric Fisher takes an in depth look at some of the most intense weather events in New England’s history. The stories in this book not only describe the loss and the damage caused by the storms, but also how nearly all of them in left such an impression that they immediately led to progress where new warnings systems were implemented, government agencies formed, and technology accelerated in response to the devastation these events left behind.
Download or read book Sudden Sea written by R. A. Scotti and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.
Download or read book Pamphlets on the New England Hurricane Sept 21 1938 written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Newly Digitized Data for the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 written by Lauren Christine Carter and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hurricanes in Massachusetts written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: 1938 New England hurricane, Effects of Hurricane Floyd in New England, Effects of Hurricane Noel in the United States, Hurricane Bill (2009), Hurricane Cindy (1959), Hurricane Earl (2010), Hurricane Esther (1961), Hurricane Irene. Excerpt: Hurricane Irene was a large and destructive tropical cyclone, which affected much of the Caribbean and East Coast of the United States during late August 2011. Irene is currently ranked as the seventh costliest hurricane in United States history. The ninth named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, Irene originated from a well-defined Atlantic tropical wave that began showing signs of organization east of the Lesser Antilles. Due to development of atmospheric convection and a closed center of circulation, the system was designated as Tropical Storm Irene on August 20, 2011. After intensifying, Irene made landfall in St. Croix as a strong tropical storm later that day. Early on August 21, the storm made a second landfall in Puerto Rico. While crossing the island, Irene strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane. The storm paralleled offshore of Hispaniola, continued to slowly intensify in the process. Shortly before making four landfalls in the Bahamas, Irene peaked as a 120 mph (195 km/h) Category 3 hurricane. Thereafter, the storm slowly leveled-off in intensity as it struck the Bahamas and then curved northward after passing east of Grand Bahama. Continuing to weaken, Irene was downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on August 27, becoming the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Ike in 2008. Early on the following day, the storm re-emerged into the Atlantic from southeastern Virginia. Although Irene remained a hurricane over land, it...
Download or read book The Hurricane Of 1938 written by Michele Dickey and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Old Lyme author Michele Dickey, this monograph commemorates the 70th anniversary of the hurricane that caused major property damage in Old Lyme, especially its beaches. Interviews with storm survivors, original photos.
