1930s: The Great New England Hurricane of 1938, USA

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Parts of New England were ravished by deadly waves and vicious winds of up to 186 miles per hour (299km/h), when a hurricane blew in from the west, near the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic, and struck Long Island on 21 September 1938. Katharine Hepburn’s Connecticut beach house was one of 8,900 homes swept into the sea as a result of powerful storm surges. The movement of water, pushed ahead by the hurricane, caused the most damage.

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1930s: The Great New England Hurricane of 1938, USA Parts of New England were ravished by deadly waves and vicious winds of up to 186 miles per hour (299km/h), when a hurricane blew in from the west, near the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic, and struck Long Island on 21 September 1938. Katharine Hepburn’s Connecticut beach house was one of 8,900 homes swept into the sea as a result of powerful storm surges. The movement of water, pushed ahead by the hurricane, caused the most damage.