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COPYRIGHT 2005 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
The Great Hurricane: 1938 by Cherie Burns Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005; $24.00
The devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina still feels like a punch in the belly of the Southeast, but surely, at least, the warning and evacuation saved many lives. Not so with the great storm that hit the Northeast on September 20-21, 1938. Hurricanes hardly happen there anyway, but with no timely warning, the storm caught everyone by surprise.
Spawned in the eastern Atlantic and reported by a few passing vessels as it headed northeast after skirting the Bahamas, the great storm disappeared from...
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