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"About three o'clock, the wind started. It sounded like a train coming through, like a whoosh, and it was the most awful sound you ever heard in your life. And we really were very frightened..."

-- Doris Layden, Providence, Rhode Island resident and survivor of the Hurricane of '38


What natural phenomenon do you fear the most?
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I do not wish to vote but would like to see the current results



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