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This spellbinding narrative, focusing on the extraordinary human drama that unfolded as an unlikely alignment of meteorological conditions conspired to bring a deadly tropical cyclone to the Northeast in the summer of 1938, summons back the most ferocious storm ever to hit the East Coast. It was a natural disaster so intense that it indelibly marked not only the lives of families across seven states but also the land itself, requiring the entire coastline map of New England to be redrawn.

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"Experienced from below, an extreme hurricane is an explosion of wind and water. . . . Town by town, the Northeast darkened and was silenced. The brilliant inv...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Jul 31 19:29:30 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 19:41:02 -0700 2009
Many personal stories in here. I had previously seen a PBS documentary on the storm. And it told in detail the story of the Moores and their wild ride on the roof o...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Jul 26 06:42:49 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 06:42:59 -0700 2009
I've heard all my life about the storm of 1900 that devastated Galveston, but I've never heard anything about this storm. It was the only cat...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 23 19:58:35 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 20:11:59 -0800 2008

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Before reading this book, I had no concept of the scale of this natural disaster. My elderly neig...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 16:53:13 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 17:01:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Aug 29 08:10:41 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 14:54:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Apr 12 09:18:24 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 14:18:12 -0700 2008
I read this while preparing to work with 5th graders about the Hurricane of 38. Took excerpts for them to help understand the human aspect. Is a GREAT part of this yearly program.

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