Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R.A. Scotti

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R.A. Scotti

Author:R.A. Scotti [Scotti, R.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: HIS000000, History
ISBN: 9780316739115
Google: 4Z0QptpM90MC
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2003-01-02T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter 15

The Dangerous Right Semicircle

Survivors in eastern Connecticut and Massachusetts could not believe that the storm was holding anything back, but the Hurricane of 1938 saved the worst for the smallest state. Although Rhode Island is just thirty-seven miles east to west and forty-eight miles north to south, its long shoreline and geography of deep bays and low barrier beaches made it uniquely vulnerable. The Ocean State not only lay directly in the path of the hurricane’s dangerous right semicircle, it received the worst of the hurricane at the worst possible time — when the highest tide of the year was peaking.



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