Have You Ever Heard of Hurricane Hazel?

Hurricane Hazel blasted through eastern North Carolina in October of 1954. Nineteen at the time, and my father, decades later, still talked about the force of the wind as he pushed against the windows in his parents’ house so that they wouldn’t break. By the time this storm, the only Category 4 hurricane to hit the North Carolina coast, ended, it had killed over 600 people and left billions of dollars of damage from Haiti to Toronto. These numbers show that it was the deadliest and most costly h...