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The 1938 hurricane is the most intense tropical cyclone to strike the United States Atlantic coastline north of North Carolina. Along the Atlantic coast of the United States (north of Florida) - only Hurricanes Hugo (1989) and Hazel (1954) - were more intense at landfall. Every record for wind speed, tidal surge, and barometric pressure in New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island - can be traced to this single event.
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The hurricane that hit New England on Sept. 21, 1938 was the region's worst so far this century. The storm killed at least 600 people and did at least $306 million in damage in 1938 dollars, which would equal about $3.5 billion in today's dollars.
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The 1938 hurricane produced winds of unimaginable fury across eastern Long Island, eastern Connecticut, and southern Rhode Island. The power of the wind carried away roofs, church steeples, factory buildings, and thousands of smaller structures. On Long Island, several 300-foot steel and concrete-bolted RCA radio towers were twisted into unrecognizable shapes by the wind. In Stonington, Connecticut, the entire top floor of the three-story, 500,000 square-foot brick Schneider factory blew away. Many who experienced the 38 storm along the immediate coastline, reported the sound of the wind reached an incredible high pitch - almost a scream. The air became intensely humid.
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