Hurricanes and Books

The strangest coincidence happened to us during the hurricane!!  We’d been clearing out our attic recently – a horrible job! – and a box of books dropped on the floor at the end of the day. Exhausted from the hot work, we left the books where they lay.  The next day, the hurricane struck and a tree branch fell right through the roof!  We ran upstairs to inspect the damage and there, under the hole in the roof were the books.  Right near the top was Everett S. Allen’s amazing account of the 1938 hurricane, A Wind to Shake the World!!

If you haven’t read the book, you should!  Allen had just started working at the New Bedford Standard Times on September 21, 1938, the day of one of the biggest hurricanes ever to strike southeastern New England.  He interviewed over 200 people and offered first hand accounts of this terrific storm which killed about 800 people, many in Rhode Island, swept away entire communities along the shore and had tides of up to 25′ between New London and Cape Cod!

There are a number of great hurricane books!  Do you have a favorite?

-Vicky

PS  The hole is now fixed and the books are safely back in their box!

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