[dirtboy]

I have never heard of a major storm move this fast!!

The Long Island Express, the hurricane in 1938 that trashed eastern Long Island and Providence, was estimated to be moving between 60 and 70 mph when it made landfall.

And forecasters thought it was goint to stay off the coast, and folks had no idea it was coming. Imagine going to the beach in the morning and be in your house fighting for your life that afternoon.

[CedarDave]

My parents, newly married, lived through that storm. They lived south of Boston and I remember them telling me about it. They also saved a special newspaper section which was called a rotogravure with all the pictures and I remember looking through it sometime in the distant past. Long gone now, I imagine.

[jeffers]

A man who lived out east on Long Island had purchased a barometer from Abercrombie and Fitch shortly before the Long Island Express made landfall. On the morning of the storm, the needle on the barometer was pegged at the lowest end of the dial. Thinking the instrument was defective, he left to exchange it. When he returned, his house was gone.