Posted on 01/19/2017 9:16:59 AM PST by Hostage
Historian Cherie Burns discusses the 1938 natural disaster that shocked New England.
Back in the 1930s, many New Englanders liked to say that hurricanes never hit their part of the country. They discovered their assumptions were incorrect on a Wednesday afternoon in September 1938.
The Great Hurricane of 1938 slammed into Long Island and Rhode Island, killing 564 in southern New England. Thousands of buildings and boats were destroyed.
Historian Cherie Burns wrote about the disaster in her 2005 book "The Great Hurricane: 1938." Publishers Weekly raved, "From start to finish, this powerful story of nature's fury and human survival pulls the reader in and doesn't let go."
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PE Trump's pick for EPA Director Scott Pruitt is getting slammed while hysterical leftists are touting that 'Climate Change has caused SUPERSTORMS to create massive destruction of the Northeast'.
File the massive destruction of the 'Great Hurricane of 1938' as evidence against man-made Climate Change causing massively destructive superstorms (Hurricane Sandy of 2012).
I remember the Hurricane of 1938.
The droning howl scared me to death and our windows blew in.
My father had died 6 months earlier.
A VERY bad year.
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My dad passed on in ‘14 at the age of 93. When he was 17 in 1938, he was attending high school in Lynn MA and the weather started to get brutal. This was before weather satellites, etc. so it came with little warning.
I used to see “high water mark—1938 hurricane” signs along Route 2 in western MA.
My mother remembered trees floating down the Potomac. The water was so high the trees and other debris couldn’t go under the arches of the Key Bridge in Georgetown.
Please, both of you, write a note to President-E Trump’s team and also tweet if you can, please describe your family testimonies and personal experiences. Write also to Sen Scott Pruitt.
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Your Dad would have remembered more than me because I was only 5-——but certain memories never leave.
My mother had a sister who lived in Edgartown——the ocean water came into their first floor
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My father was in Far Rockaway NY at the time. As a kid, he enjoyed the large waves, until they became too dangerous. He also talked about how deep the flooding was in the streets. As a kid, it seemed an adventure for him.
That is my take on it as I was there at the time, as a little kid.
I lived in the top floor of a 3 decker in the Dorchester Section of Boston.
I was home with my mother when the wind really started to howl.
It go so bad the house was swaying, and my mother laid down the lamps on the floor to keep them from toppling over.
She asked me to go to the front room on the street side and look and see if my father was coming.
When I got there the chimney above me toppled over and knocked the plaster ceiling down on me.
I ran down the stairs to the first floor and out into the storm, with my uncle who lived on the first floor chasing me and bringing me back into the house.
Because there was no warning, nothing was secured and metal ash barrels and other debris was flying every where.
Our house didn't come off its foundation but other 3 deckers got moved off their foundations.- Tom
My father was 8 at the time, and used to tell me he remembered the hurricane blowing over a row of trees on the farm. For the rest of his life the sound of wind whistling around the house made him nervous.
My God, what a horror! You and you family were lucky to have lived through it. You’re lucky to be alive. Hundreds and hundreds of others were killed.
Please feel free to comment about whether you think humans during that time contributed to making the super-storm via climate change.
One of my uncles I never knew was drowned because of the ‘38 hurricane when it hit Baldwinville, MA. The Otter River took a couple lives.
Did your dad make it home?
I believe in climate change because it is inconceivable to me that the worlds temperatures are going to stay the same. It is going to get warmer or it is going to get colder.
I do not believe we are responsible for it happening.
History shows it happens, but fortunately over a long period of time, like centuries, and we have time to adapt.
I would prefer if change comes it would get a little warmer about 2-3 degree would be nice.
Not to hard to adapt to that, and it would help in growing certain bordeline food crops that need a little more warmth to grow, but hopefully not a big enough increase to destroy regular crops we now rely on.
A few degrees colder would be more of a problem IMHO. A much bigger temperature rise up or down would of course be a big problem.
But I don't think we are the cause of this fluctuation.
Blaming us is just another way of implementing feel good and anti-American measures that are designed by American haters to cripple this country economically on the world stage-and I am opposed to that. -Tom
Eventually-The buses had stopped running because of the Hurricane. - Tom
Video of 1938 Hurricane Part 1 - New Bedford, MA.
September 21, 1938
The worst hurricane to hit the South Eastern Massachusetts.
Credit to M.L. Baron for this great video “A Wind To Shake The World “ 1938 Hurricane M.L. Baron Classic 1988 - Part 1
Narrated by Everett S. Allen
http://www.whalingcity.net/video_1938_hurricane_part_1.html
And climate change had nothing to do with it. It was simply a timing issue. It was a typical North Atlantic hurricane that as it became extra tropical, it got sucked into a run of the mill developing low.
It was that unusual timing of events that produced such a large in area storm, that produced such a high surge.
It had nothing to do with climate change.
Of course there is the Galveston Hurricane of horse and buggy 1900, which still is in terms of death the worst natural destruction in US history. Not much CO2 back then. Lots of manure... like now.
Yes, this nonsense about storms now being worse than ever before because of global warming/climate change is - nonsense - I recall driving along Ocean Drive in what was left of Sea Isle City, NJ back in the ‘60’s after some storm had leveled the town from the ocean all the way across the island to the back bay - climate change is a scam.....
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