Essayist E. B. White, perhaps best known as the author of the book Charlotte's Web (New York: Harper, 1952), wrote an article entitled "The Eye of Edna" in which he described riding out Hurricane Edna in a cabin on the coast of Maine in 1954.
OUR WINDSWEPT CORRESPONDENTS. Report on hurricane Edna's visit to the Maine Coast. The radio either lets Nature alone or gives her the full treatment, as it did at the approach of the storm. The idea, of course, is that the radio shall perform a public service by warning people of a storm that might prove fatal; and this the radio certainly does. But another effect of the radio is to work people up to an incredible state of alarm many hours in advance of the blow, while they are still fanned by the mildest zephyrs. One of the victims of Hurricane Edna was a civil-defense worker whose heart failed him long before the wind threatened him in the least.
The Saxby Gale.
Essayist E. B. White, perhaps best known as the author of the book Charlotte's Web (New York: Harper, 1952), wrote an article entitled "The Eye of Edna" in which he described riding out Hurricane Edna in a cabin on the coast of Maine in 1954.
My wife's grandmother wrote a poem about that storm. "Edna In A Hurry Came".
I have photos of boats tethered to a dock in the morning. And we came back in the afternoon, and these boats were sitting in the mud, and we saw the dock was on 20-foot pilings. Sheez.