The full video from Everett Allen's masterpiece book A Wind to Shake the World. My father was 13 at the time, and he had vivid memories of roofs blowing over his head on his walk home from grade school. The storm took the top story off of the Whitin Machine Works research facility in Whitinsville, MA, mercifully evacuated less than an hour before. Still, the death toll in New England, particularly on the Connecticut and Rhode Island coasts, was massive. More than 800 perished. The 1938 Hurricane cost more than $300 million in 1938 dollars, more than $5 BILLION today. It remains the only storm ever to hit Vermont as a hurricane, where it killed seven people.
Anyway, worth the watching. URR here.
Vermonter here. Yes, we got a good whack from 1938, but the touchstones here remain the Great Flood of 1927 and the still-extant damage that Irene laid on us in 2011.
Posted by: Captain Ned | 09/22/2017 at 10:35 PM