PLYMOUTH, N.H. (CBSNewYork/AP) - It slammed into land and rapidly moved north, destroying buildings, altering coastlines, ripping apart forests and shocking a population that had never experienced a ...

The film "Shock Troops of Disaster" depicts the catastrophic impact of the 1938 hurricane that struck New England, highlighting the devastation it caused along the coast. As the hurricane approached, ...

Today is the 71st anniversary of the great New England Hurricane of 1938.The hurricane, which struck Long Island and New England without warning, led tothe deaths of 682 people. The hurricane raced ...

In May of 1938, a Rhode Island high school sophomore by the name of Philip C. Greene wrote a poem that would later seem like a harbinger of the natural disaster that would befall so many New England ...

Florida is feeling the wrath of Hurricane Milton, a massive Category 4 storm in the Gulf of Mexico that the National Weather Service called “historic, catastrophic, life-threatening.” The storm is ...

BARRINGTON, R.I. (WJAR) — Editor's note: This story was originally published in September 2021. We are resharing to mark the 85th anniversary of the Great New England Hurricane in 2023. Minor edits ...

Thursday, Sept. 21 marks the 85th anniversary of the Hurricane of 1938. It was a storm that followed a path that hurricanes were not supposed to travel. Arriving in an area where hurricanes, up to the ...

Hundreds of people were killed and 1 out of every 3 trees in New England were destroyed when the Hurricane of '38 came roaring ashore on Sept. 21, 1938.It was the costliest hurricane in New Hampshire ...

Friday, September 21 marks the 80th Anniversary of the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. Also known as the Long Island express, the fast-moving powerful hurricane came without warning to southern ...