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The Great Colonial Hurricane in 1963 to Hurricane Ike's landfall in Galveston, Texas, in 2008.
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Captain Arthur A. Small had kept the lighthouse on Palmer's Island near New Bedford since 1919.
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In Chilmark, on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Benedict Thielen and his wife watched as water began to trickle into their summer home.
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Harrison McDonald was traveling by train from Albany, New York, to Boston, Massachusetts during the 1938 Hurricane.
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Helen Joy Lee, daughter of the founder of the Packard Motor Car Company, summered at Watch Hill, Rhode Island for a number of years.
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Florida resident Mrs. Norman was not surprised and sat down to observe what she thought was a peach of a windstorm.
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On September 21, 1938, the headlines in the Boston Evening Transcript read "Czechs in Surrender" and below that: "Raging Floods Sweep N.E. [New England], 11 Dead in 4-Day Rain."Â
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The material damage of the storm has been calculated to be $4.7 billion in 2001 dollars. Six hundred and eighty lives were lost in the destruction and rising waters.Â
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On November 1, 1870, weather forecasts for the eastern United States were being issued for the first time, although these were just 24 hours ahead.Â
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Hurricanes are among earth's most ferocious natural forces. But how do these swirling weather patterns develop?
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Footage from the 1927 flood, including shots of workers and aerial views of the flooding.
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What was it like for the residents of the Mississippi Delta in spring 1927, as torrential rains fell and the river rose steadily to flood stage?
