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On September 21, 1938, the fastest hurricane on record caught the Northeast by surprise and left a wake of death and destruction across seven states. Traveling at record speeds, the storm raced up the Atlantic coast, reaching New York and New England ahead of hurricane warnings and striking with such intensity that seismographs in Alaska registered the impact. Winds clocked at 186 miles per hour stripped cars of their paint. Walls of water fifty feet high swept homes and entire families out to sea.

R. A. Scotti, a former journalist for the Providence Journal-Bulletin and Newark Star-Ledger, is the author of five novels. A native Rhode Islander, Scotti grew up hearing stories of 1938, including one of an aunt who returned from work at the phone company in a rowboat and another about her grandmother's best friend, who stepped out onto the porch of her house and was never seen again. She summers at Narragansett Pier, Weekapaug, and Jamestown and lives the rest of the year in New York City

Prologue: Gone with the Wind

3

(4)

A Perfect Day

7

(18)

The Way It Was

25

(8)

A Shift in the Wind

33

(4)

Hurricane Watch

37

(14)

At Sea

51

(10)

All Aboard

61

(10)

A Bright Young Man

71

(12)

Upside Down, Inside Out

83

(4)

Battening the Hatches

87

(6)

A One-Hundred-Year Storm

93

(6)

How Do You Lose a Hurricane?

99

(6)

The Long Island Express

105

(14)

Crossing the Sound

119

(6)

The Atlantic Ocean Bound Out of Bed

125

(12)

The Dangerous Right Semicircle

137

(24)

Providence

161

(10)

The Tempest

171

(18)

Cast Adrift

189

(14)

All Quiet

203

(6)

The Reckoning

209

(16)

The Last of the Old New England Summers

225

(10)

Afterword

235

(4)

Appendix: A Nickel for Your Story

239

(6)

Author's Acknowledgments

245

(2)

Sources and Chapter Notes

247

(10)

Selected Bibliography

257

(8)

Index

265

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Sudden Sea : The Great Hurricane of 1938

Sudden Sea : The Great Hurricane of 1938

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