People inspect buildings on Fairfield Beach wrecked by the Hurricane of 1938.
Do you have memories of previous hurricanes and tropical storms that have hit Connecticut in years past? Maybe you lost power in Hurricane Bob, or maybe you even remember the storm pictured above from 1938.
Share your storm memories below!
A storm like Earl, in its projected passing location, may well, will likely, cause an very strong easterly wind blowing for an extended period which will raise water levels, especially at times of high tide, extremely, even dangerously- even with the storm passing offshore. Expect flooding in areas such as Rowayton, south Stamford, etc. Will the City close the hurricane barriers?
And let’s talk about the Vineyard Race…
Comment by t carder — September 2nd, 2010 @ 7:49 pm
This is the info we had on the Vineyard race, though it’s from yesterday:
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Hurricane-Earl-forces-delay-of-Vineyard-Race-642730.php
Comment by Chris Preovolos — September 2nd, 2010 @ 7:55 pm
This reminds me of the time Geoff Fox was dragged in on a Sunday Night in 1986 to talk about Hurricane Charlie (or was it Charley.) The weekend guy, Bob, couldn’t handle it, so they had to rustle up young Geoff at home.
Comment by The Captain — September 3rd, 2010 @ 12:44 am
I recall tropical storm Agnes in 1972. It seemed to rain for days and days and days. Big winds I don’t recall; just that rain and rain and rain. I ended up playing board games with my teenage friends on Old Logging Road in North Stamford. The sense of intense cabin fever that week, I have never experienced since. Of course part of that might be the fact that for over 30 years now I’ve lived in Southern California!!! I believe a minor tropical storm from Mexico came ashore in Orange County in 1947. Which, I believe, is the last time it snowed here at sea level.
Comment by Jon — September 3rd, 2010 @ 12:53 pm
Give me a break!! A direct hit from this storm would have caused less damage than the storm that hit our area this past March! In that storm the surge pushed the waters of LI Sound almost to my back door, which had not happened since the Nor’easter of 1992! No hype then, I guessed there were more newsworthy stories to report that week.
I am so sick of the media frenzy that surrounds every little weather event. How did we ever survive 20 years ago?
Comment by Harry Hype — September 3rd, 2010 @ 8:53 pm
Though I have lived through a fair number of hurricanes that hit the East Coast, the most prominent one in my memory is the 1938 blast. Barely into my teenage years, I then lived in New Rochelle. It was not only the wind and the swaying, sometimes falling trees, but the family’s worry about my brother, on his way to Boston by train.
He told us, afterwards, of trying to figure out how to hold onto a swaying train from the inside. His train was the last one to get through. The following train was blown off the tracks somewhere in Rhode Island, where the right of way was close to Long Island Sound. The pictures were spectacular (see Google), and the storm was not only reported in newspapers around the country but in 2003 earned its own book: “Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938.”
Ed Rosenberg
Comment by Ed Rosenberg — September 3rd, 2010 @ 10:58 pm