We lost just about everything on the first floor and in the basement. !I recall the 1938 hurricane quite well. We lived in Brookline in a 3 story 2 family. While Hurricane Connie mostly missed New England in August 1955, you’re right that a few days later Hurricane Diane’s path did include southern New England, causing a great deal of flooding and devastation.You didn’t even mention the hurricanes Connie followed by Diane in 1955.From Torrington, Winsted, down through Waterbury,Naugatuck and and the Naugatuck Valley there was great devastation with loss of life and millions of dollars worth of damage.I was 3 when Carol hit in 1954. Thanks for your comment. We lived downstairs in a two family house. Let’s revisit a few from the last century.Damage in Island Park, Rhode Island from the Hurricane of 1938. Diane still holds the record for wettest hurricane to hit Massachusetts, with rain accumulation reaching 19.75 inches. Thunder and lightening on 10/30.We were high and dry in Irene, here in Vermont, but neighbors were hammered. The trees were bending in a half circle over the road and we had a blast splashing in all the puddles until the Policeman came along and told us to go home it was too dangerous!My beloved mother was from Natick. In little over a week, two hurricanes passed by Southern New England in August 1955 producing major flooding over much of the region. Martial law was declared and National Guardsmen were posted at the intersection of our street with Rt. Many memories!We moved to NH during Hurricane Irene in August of 2011.
What I carried away from it was the physical sense of loss felt throughout the storm’s path- beautiful old vistas obliterated overnight,a permanent void deeply felt and never reconciled.The closing chapter are masterfully poignant.“To watch the only world I had ever known well writhe in torment for the few moments required to destroy it”….Everett S. Allen.I was 7 when Hurricane Carol hit Natick, MA. Daddy was building a raft of bureaus. They affected a zone farther inland but essentially concentric with the … It is recorded as the 2nd wettest hurricane in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Carol flattened the corn fields to the west and after the eye passed did it again to the east. We had been warned to avoid the coastal route from Tennessee so took an interior route which took us thru Vermont. The name ‘Sandy’ has been retired.Do you remember any of worst hurricanes in New England history?Take a break and read about all of your favorite locations that made the Best of New England Hall of Fame.I’ve lived through all of them, even though I was only a year and a half old for the 1938. It is still one of the most damaging storms to hit the region. Clean up took about a year – all windows were gone; our cars were lost, and two pets died. It was days for some weeks for others to get power. THE FLOODS OF HURRICANE CONNIE AND DIANE . I was born in Saco, Maine 1936 there was a flood & another in 1952. The entire reach of the Quinebaug River set new flow records.In the Connecticut River valley, the most significant flows were experienced on the Chicopee, Westfield, and Farmington Rivers. That is a hurricane I will never forget and we lived in Florida for a bit.My memory is of the 1938 hurricane when my mother, fearful of breaking window pane put us children in a closetI remember being on my Father’s shoulders surveying the mess on the beach at the Beach Club Quogue, L.,I. I remember a hurricane not mentioned above in 1944. New England hurricanes often make landfall, but thanks to cold waters and fast-moving winds, they usually don’t last long and rarely reach Category 3 (having sustained winds of 111–129 mph) in strength on the 5-category Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale. Bands of heavy rain and wind reached southern New England and damages totaled nearly $86 million. We lived at the top of a fishng Dock so we got water in the cellar at every hurricane! The tidal wave went over the CBA beach club in Craigville, Cape Cod and waves were lapping in the parking lot near my home in the village of Craigville. Many of these were in the area immediately south of Worcester, in the Thames and Blackstone headwaters.If August was not bad enough, two months later, a four day storm dumped an additional 12-14 inches of rain in southwest New England.
Trees were bending like spaghetti and the winds seemed to never ease up not even for a moment. Of the 180 lives that were lost, 77 were in Connecticut. Hurricane Connie produced generally 4-6 inches of rainfall over southern New England on August 11 and 12. Their were no giant food stores only mom and pop stores. In 1955, Westfield got 78 inches of rain, and 40 of that came in these two days in August and October. Overall, casualties were relatively low with 8 deaths, but damage reached $900 million. Winsted, Connecticut after the flood. With 100 mph winds, sometimes gusting up to 135 mph, Carol caused 68 deaths and over $460 million in damage, including destroying 4,000 homes, 3,500 cars, and over 3,000 boats. We eventually just stopped at a gas station and waited for it to open.
These stories I am reading here bring back many frightening moments.The only one I wasn’t around for was the 1938 hurricane. What a birthday!That’s funny….Hurricane Diane was on my 9th. Someone came and took her out in a rowboat. The janitor came to take the class into the school when a wave came over the wall and practically destroyed the building!
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