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on The Night Of September 21,1938, News On The Radio Was Full Of The Invasion Of Czechoslovakia. There Was No Mention Of Any Severe Weather. By The Time Oceanfront Residents Noticed An Ominous Color In The Sky, It Was Too Late To Escape. In An Age Before Warning Systems And The Ubiquity Of Television, This Unprecedented Storm Caught The Northeast Off Guard, Obliterated Coastal Communities, And Killed Seven Hundred People. the Great Hurricane: 1938 Is A Spellbinding Hour-by-hour Reconstruction Of One Of The Most Destructive And Powerful Storms Ever To Hit The United States. With Riveting Detail, Burns Weaves Together The Countless Personal Stories Of Loved Ones Lost And Lives Changed Forever — From Those Of The Moore Family, Washed To Sea On A Raft Formerly Their Attic Floor, To Katharine Hepburn, Holed Up In Her Connecticut Mansion, Watching Her Car Take To The Air Like A Bit Of Paper. the Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley in New England, If In Few Other Places, The Storm Is Still Remembered. I Heard Stories About It In Rhode Island As A Boy, And, Burns Writes, It Would Never Be Forgotten As The Time When The Public In New England Came To Understand That Large Events, Bad Things Beyond Their Making, Could Strike Even On Their Doorstep. Her Own Very Good Book Is Sure To Help Keep The Terrible Storm In Its Proper Place In New England's Memory, As Well As Being Timely Reading In This Period Of Unusually Heavy And Frequent Hurricane Activity.