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The Long Island Express: The New England Hurricane of 1938 |
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The Long Island Express: The New England Hurricane of 1938
By Joyce Furstenau |
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1 The Weather Bureau experts and the general public never saw it coming. The greatest weather disaster ever to hit New England struck at around 3:30 P.M. on September 21, 1938. It was a category three hurricane. A category three hurricane has wind speeds between 111 and 130 mph. This hurricane was later nicknamed The Long Island Express because of the force with which it destroyed the Long Island, New York communities.