LYCOS RETRIEVER 
1938
built 112 days ago
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The extreme storm surge of the 1938 hurricane was beyond anything coastal residents in New York, Rhode Island, and Connecticut had ever experienced or written about. There was no historical comparison. Several survivors along the coast of Rhode Island, stated that at the height of the hurricane, they saw a 40-foot fog bank rolling toward the beach, when the bank got closer, they realized it wasn't fog - it was water (Whipple - 1940). The combation of a 16 to 20-foot tidal surge and wind gusts that may have reached 150-mph - leveled 1 out of every 3 buildings along the coast of eastern Long Island, southeast Connecticut and southern Rhode Island. Along the open-ocean facing coastal roads in Rhode Island and Long Island - the damage was horrific. Whole beach communities were swept away - some without a trace.
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The year 1938 brought a sequence of dramatic events for Rumania. The anti-Semitic Government of Octavian Goga, which had come into power at the end of 1937, dissolved the Parliament in which it could count upon the support of only a small minority, and the campaign for the new elections promised to throw the country into further confusion and even into civil war. Under these conditions King Carol II felt himself authorized on Feb. 10, 1938, to suspend Parliament, to halt the elections, to dismiss the Cabinet, and to name a new Cabinet under the Presidency of Miron Cristea, a Transylvanian Orthodox priest, who had been since 1925 Rumanian Patriarch. George Tatarescu, a member of the former Liberal Party, who for many years had been Prime Minister before Goga came to power, became Deputy Prime Minister. The formation of the new government was a blow directed at Julius Maniu, the leader of the Democratic opposition in Rumania, and at Codreanu, the leader of the extreme Fascist group.
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The day after the 1938 hurricane slammed into the United States the attention of the world was on major political events unfolding (Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia). It was more than a week before news of the appalling death and destruction along the U.S. Atlantic coast reached the rest of the World. Although the 1938 hurricane was certainly not the strongest hurricane to hit the United States, the combination of a strong hurricane, moving very rapidly, and striking a densely populated area - created property damage unequaled up to that time. The 1938 hurricane did more damage than the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. According to several publications - the total property damage was the greatest of any natural disaster ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere up to that time.
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The 1938 hurricane first was reported in the vicinity of Puerto Rico on Sept. 18, 1938. It passed within 200 miles of Florida and then tracked North at a speed of 40mph. The Florida Weather Bureau had termed this storm a hurricane, but when it was handed off to the Washington station the severity was lost. Several reasons were stated afterwards, but the result was that no warning was sent to Long Island. The hurricane arrived on Fire Island in the afternoon on Sept. 21 on rising tides. Winds were measured at 120 mph with a storm-surge of 10ft on the ocean and 13 to 15 ft on the Bay.
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In the first half of 1938, numerous laws were passed restricting Jewish economic activity and occupational opportunities. In July, 1938, a law was passed (effective January 1, 1939) requiring all Jews to carry identification cards. On October 28, 17,000 Jews of Polish citizenship, many of whom had been living in Germany for decades, were arrested and relocated across the Polish border. The Polish government refused to admit them so they were interned in "relocation camps" on the Polish frontier.
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