Damage was estimated at $400 million, the equivalent of $3. Instead, it went straight north. Now 74, Orloff is executive director of the Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center in Milton.
Editor's note: The following story appeared in The Keene Sentinel's Monadnock Observer magazine for the week of Sept. 17-23, 1988, marking the 50th anniversary of the Hurricane of 1938. "Realistically [hurricane season] is through October, so we still have a way to go, " Simpson said. About 10 days after the hurricane faded out, the politicians went at it. To the surprise of every forecaster, the storm not only became bigger, but it didn't veer out to sea, as every major coastal storm in the region had done for more than 100 years. "The only thing close to Carol before that was the Great Hurricane of 1938, " Orloff said. But the building was flooded, and the grand opening was postponed three weeks. "When they started to go down, " she said the other day, "I thought it was the end of the world. Before people shopped on Sunday. His father called to him to come indoors, and eventually he did. People thought it might take five or six years to move all the floating logs to market, but World War II came along and the wood was needed for barracks and ship interiors. Church steeple in hurricane strength winds crossword. Kids who'd had a good time playing Tarzan on the fallen trees lost their jungles. And, as it turned out, it wasn't available to them for the four weeks following the hurricane, either, because the electrical wires went down in the Jaffrey area and it took a month to get them back up again. "It passed right over the suburbs of Boston with winds at 125 miles per hour.... And before the economic boom that brought outsiders in.
Less lucky was Alexcina Belletete in Jaffrey. But, from today's perspective, 1938 was not the ideal world. Before people sued each other at the drop of a hat the way they do today. "I saw a tree fall and crush a car, 'til the car was no more than 12 inches off the ground, except for the engine block. "Everything was spoiled. " The plumbing at some one- room schoolhouses consisted of an outhouse out back. In Winchester, Elmer Johnson remembers climbing to the top of the family barn to hold the hay door shut. They were deep in the ground. And they were picked up hard. Church steeple in hurricane strength winds crossword puzzle crosswords. "I don't like the wind.
The trees in Wheelock Park in Keene, for example, went into the ground as seedlings after the storm. The advertisement was intended to show that Wright felt secure about his family's welfare, since he now had a big life insurance policy. The barn still stands — but, she conceded, not because she was able to keep her door shut all night. Residents of Southeastern Massachusetts barely had a week to recover before they were hit again, by Hurricane Edna, a Category 3 storm that mainly affected Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod. In Keene alone, the damage to businesses totaled $13 million. Ten years after Hurricane Katrina: Then and Now | Picture Gallery Others News. The Belletetes now sell hardware and lumber throughout the region, but back then the business was food. Seventy-five years ago, this region was devastated by one of the worst natural disasters in American history, the Hurricane of '38.
The telephone wires went down, too. The cleanup work was done by hand, with axes and two-man crosscut saws. People remember relaxed times then.