New England in Ruins: Recalling the Great Hurricane of ’38 Read more: http://nation.time.com/2012/11/01/new-england-in-ruins-recalling-the-great-hurricane-of-38/#ixzz2B3GCk57t

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Waves strike a seawall on the New England coast, September 1938.

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Residents of hard-hit Williston Park, Long Island, evacuate their rain-flooded homes during the Great Hurricane of 1938.

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After a fearful night spent on the roof of their Westhampton Beach, Long Island, home, parents carry their children to safety, 1938.

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Piling sand bags in the wake of the Great New England Hurricane of 1938.

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This bus, bound for New York from New England, stalled on a flooded road near Danbury, CT, here after the swollen waters of the Norwalk River overran their banks, 1938

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A damaged ferry boat, Providence, RI, following the Great Hurricane of 1938

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Wreckage in Westhampton Beach, New York, after the Great Hurricane of 1938.

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Youngsters inspect bits of salvage material they dug from the wreckage of a hurricane-damaged New London, CT, home, September 1938.

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A couple sitting amongst the remains of their home at Highland Park, R.I.

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