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From: "Miriam Taylor-Cotton" <>
Subject: [MAFRANKL] Historical Interest - ref lost lives/records and family belongings/books etc.
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 14:32:17 -0500


On March 24th, 2002, your local PBS station will be running this:
[Chances are it will be 9pm eastcoast as its Boston based ...]

This is the great Hurricane of 1938 that did so much Damage
*so far inland*

I remember my folks and grandfather telling about it destroying the
peach/apple orchards on the Mohawk Trail - in searching
found this reference to Springfield..

http://pbs.org/amex/hurricane38/


>>September 21: A devastating hurricane drives through the northeastern
United States. Residents are unprepared for the storm and the flooding it
brings. Over 600 people are killed, most by drowning. Another hundred are
never found. Property damage is estimated at $300 million -- over 8,000
homes are destroyed, 6,000 boats wrecked or damaged. Yet the hurricane does
not receive much media attention; Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Adolf
Hitler in Europe dominates headlines before and after the storm.<<

OR -- go direct to this which has great historical related info
along with a map of the path this destruction occurred..
Amazing..

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hurricane38/maps/index.html

It could be during this that many family records were destroyed.

>>The storm traveled almost directly northward up the Connecticut River
Valley, dumping copious amounts of rain especially to the westward of its
track. <<

There is also a 'timeline' of many storms - broken into 2

1635-1935 and 1938-1996

You can get more www.pbs.org
and read so much more

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hurricane38/peopleevents/e_aftermath.html

[PBS Previews is a publication of PBS Online. Reproduction is permitted
with proper credit given to PBS Online.

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the Public Broadcasting Service.

Copyright 2002]

I sub to this Preview list offer - well worth it - once a week
Previews in text...

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