Quote Originally Posted by Grace View Post
Both of us are too young to remember the '38 hurricane that roared up the east coast and flooded Providence. My mother used to regale me with her stories. She walked up the front walk, coming home early from work - and 5 minutes after she got in the house, one of the huge oak trees fell right over the front walk. I still have the book put out by the Providence Journal, with pictures of the damage from that storm.
My hometown still bears scars from the '38 storm, which was not labelled a hurricane until long after the fact. I could drive you through town and point out the dam where there was a mill that the storm wiped out, point out the large open area that is a federal flood control project now, and where all the houses were relocated, etc., - it was a very destructive event for the mills running on water power in the whole of central Massachusetts, especially the Blackstone River Valley.