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Sudden sea

Author
Scotti, R. A.

 

Publisher
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c2003. (CEL11-03/04)
Description
viii, 279 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call #
363.3492 S
Summary
Prologue: Gone with the Wind -- A Perfect Day -- The Way It Was -- A Shift in the Wind -- Hurricane Watch -- At Sea -- All Aboard -- A Bright Young Man -- Upside Down, Inside Out -- Battening the Hatches -- A One-Hundred-Year Storm -- How Do You Lose a Hurricane? -- The Long Island Express -- Crossing the Sound -- The Atlantic Ocean Bound Out of Bed -- The Dangerous Right Semicircle -- Providence -- The Tempest -- Cast Adrift -- All Quiet -- The Reckoning -- The Last of the Old New England Summers -- A Nickel for Your Story. 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.
Subjects
Hurricanes Northeastern States History 20th century.
ISBN #
9780316739115

 

ID #
849349

 

Availability

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Reviews and Notes

Summary/Annotation ->  On September 21, 1938, the fastest hurricane on record caught the Northeast by surprise and left a wake of death and destruction across seven states. Traveling at record speeds, the storm raced up the Atlantic coast, reaching New York and New England ahead of hurricane warnings and striking with such intensity that seismographs in Alaska registered the impact. Winds clocked at 186 miles per hour stripped cars of their paint. Walls of water fifty feet high swept homes and entire families out to sea.

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