Sudden Sea
The Great Hurricane of 1938

On September 21, 1938, southern New England prepared for a glorious late-summer day. Summer had been hot, muggy and stormy, but this day promised a wonderful respite of lowered humidity, brilliant sun and flat sea. Until, that is, a freak Category 5 hurricane (poorly forecast and under-reported) tha......more

A horrifying read. Again, not good timing for me. I live thirty miles from Galveston and hurricane season has just begun. Very hard for me to read. I've heard all my life about the storm of 1900 that devastated Galveston, but I've never heard anything about this storm. It was the only category five h......more

It has been a year since Hurricane Irma hit Florida, and when I think back on it I still get chills remembering the dread I felt as the storm headed my way. We were fortunate, extremely fortunate, considering that just 24 hours before the storm hit, the Tampa area where I live was right in the bulls......more

For Rhode Islanders this is probably as close to must-read as it gets. The author was a Rhode Islander and made great efforts to give it a strong RI flavor. RI took the brunt of the hurricane and suffered the greatest loss in lives and property damage so that seems about right. Setting my RI roots as......more

I know that we are in an "instant gratification/I want it NOW" world. I don't know if that contributed to me being bored the first half of the book or not. There was just too much build up of information before the hurricane finally hit. I almost felt bad that I was like "Come on, let's get to the h......more