The Hurricane of '38

Synopsis

In September of 1938, a great storm rose up on the coast of West Africa and began making its way across the Atlantic Ocean. The National Weather Bureau learned about it from merchant ships at sea and predicted it would blow itself out at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, as such storms usually did. Within 24 hours, the storm ripped into the New England shore with enough fury to set off seismographs in Sitka, Alaska. Traveling at a shocking 60 miles per hour -- three times faster than most tropical storms -- it was astonishingly swift and powerful, with peak wind gusts up to 186 mph. Over 600 people were killed, most by drowning. Another hundred were never found. Property damage was estimated at $400 million -- over 8,000 homes were destroyed, 6,000 boats wrecked or damaged.

Main Cast

David McCullough

Narrator (voice)

Age : 91 | Popularity : 14%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Thomas Lennon Michael Epstein
Production	Producer	Thomas Lennon Michael Epstein
Editing	Editor	Ken Eluto
Camera	Director of Photography	Gregory Andracke Jean de Segonzac Tom Hurwitz
Sound	Sound Editor	Dow McKeever
	Music	Michael Bacon
Department	Role	Name

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