About 700 people died 75 years ago when the storm known variously as the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 or the Long Island Express began plowing up the Northeast coastline at 2:45 p.m. on Sept.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thursday marks the 79th anniversary of "The Great New England Hurricane of 1938," a horrific storm that killed 564 people. If you have never heard of it, you are not alone. Nearly eight decades ago, ...