This 1938 photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Dept. of Commerce shows the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries building on the south side of Main Street in Woods Hole, Mass ...

PLYMOUTH, N.H. (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 hurricane.

Eighty-seven years ago last Sunday, the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 damaged more than 8,900 homes and caused around 700 fatalities across the region. Now, climate scientists warn that these ...

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 ...

Natural disasters, from sweeping hurricanes to destructive floods, are painfully preserved into the memory of people in the United States. While statistics help showing the amount of damage they ...