Posts Tagged:The Long Island Express

Throwback Thursday – In Its Wake

Throwback Thursday – In Its Wake

After a bright and fair morning on September 21, 1938, an unexpected Category 3 hurricane made landfall on Long Island around 2 pm. With no cause for alarm, the New York Times’s forecast for the day read “Rain, probably heavy today and tomorrow, cooler.” No one had predicted the storm to take its path north… Read more »

Long Island Hurricane History Display

Archival hurricane photos on exhibit at Montauk Library until October 30, 2018 The Hurricane of 1938 remains the most devastating hurricane in recent memory, a gale with winds of 110 miles per hour that stormed into eastern Long Island and New England with no warning. Montaukers fled from their homes in Fort Pond Bay Village… Read more »