What Is The Biggest Hurricane Of 1938

The Hurricane of 1938 In 1938 there was one of the biggest hurricane yet. The hurricane was so bad and lasted days. There were very bad weather conditions, other conditions that had to do with things around it like human error and lots of impact from this storms hit.
Hurricane weather conditions. Hurricane weather conditions were absolutely brutal, from the winds, to water, even to the eye and size of the storm. The winds of the storm reached more than 150 mph. In Boston the winds got up to 183 mph. Water in this storm included waves that were 30 to 50 feet in Long Island, NY. There were floods that were 12 to 17 feet of water. Pouring rain all the time basically constant. The tides from the ocean never receded and continued to push the water in. Rivers were overflooded. The eye of the hurricane had a 50 mile diameter and the whole hurricane was 500 miles wide. The hurricane’s weather was extremely dangerous.
Other conditions from the storm. During the storm or before it happened there was human error, incorrect news and other problems that occurred. Almost …show more content…
There was around 153 houses destroyed out of the 179 in westhampton rhode island. After the store looters went around and stole from stores and off of dead people. Trees were down everywhere, 275 million to be exact. Of the millions of trees down ½ of the New Hampshire white pines were down and ⅓ of Vermont's sugar maples. The storm left 63,000 homeless.There were electrical fires. So many more deaths happened because when the eye was going through everybody thought it was the end of the storm and left shelter and nobody was prepared for the storm again when it came back. Farms were destroyed and all livestock was dead and not edible. In damage the storm costed $400 million which adds up to about $6.7 billion in today's money. There was up to 682 deaths and 433 were from Rhode Island. The storms impact left things, lives and everything around it, completely