Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938The 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. |
Contents
A Shift in the Wind | |
Hurricane Watch | |
At | |
All Aboard | |
A Bright Young | |
Crossing the Sound | |
The Atlantic Ocean Bound Out of | |
The Dangerous Right Semicircle | |
Providence | |
The Tempest | |
Cast Adrift | |
All Quiet | |
The Reckoning | |
Upside Down Inside | |
Battening the Hatches | |
A OneHundredYear Storm | |
How Do You Lose a Hurricane? | |
The Long Island Express | |
The Last of the Old New England Summers | |
Afterword | |
Illustrations Appendix | |
AUTHORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
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