Great New England Hurricane (1938)
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The New England Hurricane of 1938 (or Great New England Hurricane or Yankee Clipper or Long Island Express or simply The Great Hurricane of 1938) was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The storm formed near the coast of Africa in September of the 1938 Atlantic hurricane season, becoming a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale before making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on Long Island on September 21. The hurricane was estimated to have killed between 682 and 800 people, damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at US$306 million ($ 4.77 billion in 2011). Even as late as 1951, damaged trees and buildings were still seen in the affected areas. To date it remains the most powerful, costliest and deadliest hurricane in New England history.
On WPA relief operations in New England. Reel 1, hurricane and tidal waves hit the Long Island coast in Dec. 1938. The hurricane and flood waters rage across New England. Derailed trains, felled trees, damaged homes, flooded streets, and other evidences of the catastrophe are shown. Coast Guard crews rescue stranded citizens. WPA and CCC units erect sandbag levees. Reel 2, WPA director Harry Hopkins arrives at Providence, R.I., to survey damage. WPA units deliver food and medical supplies by truck, establish relief headquarters, clear mud from city streets, repair roads, and remove debris.
Shock Troops Of Disaster - The Story Of The New England Hurricane
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My grandfather worked this recovery as a Coast Guardsman. It changed him. We have his handwritten journal from the recovery, although he kept it hidden during his lifetime. After reading the horrendous losses recorded, I understand why.
Please publish that historic record!
My dad was a little boy when this hit in Providence. He was out delivering papers, and he said the winds were so strong, he clung to a telephone pole and his feet were flying like flags in the wind. My grandfather raced from home, pried my dad off the pole and threw him in their car.
Janet Parlato ~ Thank you for sharing your Dad’s story 😃
Happy to hear your Dad was saved by his Dad, your Grandfather. Glad everyone was safe ♡
That is crazy, wow!
My dad was born 2 weeks before the storm. They lived on the Narragansett. My grandmother was rescued by boat with her 4 little children.
My mum was born in Newark NJ two days after this storm.
Both my parents worked in Providence. Never grew tired of the stories they told and of others who had a story. They had winds near 200mph at times. Only good thing was the date it hit. Almost everyone who summered along that coast in the many 1,000s had left for the season. In August it would have taken many more lives than it did.
My grandmother was in Downtown Providence when the hurricane struck. She was struck in the leg by a flying road sign. Physically and mentally she was never the same
WOWWW!!! 200 hundred mile per hour winds !!!!!
God I knew I should've gotten of Rhode Island when I had the chance......
W.P.A. = Works Progress Association, a part of the federal government to provide jobs during the Depression.
I made a story about this. It's about a girl's parents buying a car from 1938 & she found out that its haunted by a family who owned the car that died in the hurricane
Sounds interesting.
Scarborough beach was one of my favorite places to go.. I remember that bath house.. Its still there.. Got a roof on it now..
I live in Scarborough watching this lol
This was the one my grandma was in 1938!
Thanks for posting.
Good timing with this one!
A 1938 re-dux would be a devastating disaster to New England, given the growth and $$ buildup along the coast. And also the power grid systems due to tree loss and wire damage.
Carol in '54 was a strong hurricane landfall, the LAST truly powerful hurricane to strike.
= But Carol was compact and still tropical in nature, so it did not have nearly the windfield of '38, though it was very severe in a smaller area- also, was slightly lower in storm surge.
And you think we had it bad this time? This was nothing compared to 1938. I live on the south shore of Long Island and-eerily-recognized one of the bridges at 1:40. History is scary.
A whirling FREAKING Vortex.....whoa!
And history continues to repeat itself. It's pretty by the water. Let's rebuild. People are stupid.
The wind sound at 1:21 sounds like a creative foley artist
I remember this storm real scarey
3:09 and that bathhouse is still there today!!
true this one looks worse
Today, everyone would stand around whining that their phone doesn't work.
Nonsense. People would do
whatever they needed to do for survival, just as they always have. You have only to look at what's happening now in Kentucky to see this. Cheap sneers reflect badly on you.
I can't believe the Edie beales and grey gardens survived.WOW.
Gotta love nature's fury. It's the only thing that keeps us humans in line (temporarily anyway) and lets us know our place in the scheme of the planet. It's human nature to still think we can do what we want and build/go where we want.
Hope that Sandy doesn't wreak this kind of havoc. Stay safe, people!
Sandy was not even close to this Storm. Sandy had tropical storm winds. This hurricane had category 5 winds 160+
@@MemeRaider yup but snady was cat 1 or cat 3
My mother's home in NH had part of their roof torn off
Hurricane/ superstorm SANDY MAde landfall on Oct,29th. My mom's name was Sandy, it hit on her birthday , she died that year in January. We were certain my mom spirit was that Hurricane. I like to think God let her Vent .
Simma down mama. :O
Why don't we have a WPA today?
Oh right, people would call it socialism :/
and now theres a Great New England Storm of 2012 also known as Hurricane Sandy or NOAA's nickname for it Frankenstorm
Very late
*Sandy was only a tropical storm when it hit New England lmao*
@@caprisunsrtastey7714 yeah was going to say this. last hurricane to hit CT was in 1991 hurricane Bob
Ok, is this real? I know the video footage is but the gentleman speaking ... there’s a very specific accent; like a Southeast Asian/Indian trying to speak like he’s John Daly? Or someone from1930’s New England?
His accent is real-it was a common way for announcers of that era to articulate in sort of a Boston Brahman ( upperclass ) manner.
This is a genuine US accent of the period. Actors in movies like My Man Godfrey spoke this way.
People needed work. No welfare to make you lazy.
New England is nice in the summer, but horrible in the winter, which is why I am moving to Coral Gables the first chance I get. I understand, my grandmother lives in Sebastian by Vero Beach and she lived through all of the major hurricanes. She was without power for 11 days in Jeanne and said you just have to stick it out down there, it's just a part of living there.
See they didn’t have welfare back then 🤷♀️
Right and people did starve to death -read about the stock market crash-prior to the safety net which was public assistance the government had evolved to favor millionaires over common people. Millions lived in poverty while the Vanderbilts, Morgans, etc paid no taxes and lived as kingly dynasties FDR brought the government back to the people-read history and learn “Letters From An American”
Storms are silly.
Wonder if this one was also man made.
Most people use welfare for under 5 months and go right back into work.
Sorry to burst your faulty conservative bubble :(
Historically not true.
Can you point me to the data that you looked at to get that information please?
yea, except those generational dependency families that have been on welfare since it's inception...
Yeah that’s not true -don’t show your ignorance
Gee! where were the blacks an Mexicans??