The points show the location of the storm at 6-hour intervals. I picked it up na dput him in my shirt for safety. Thinking I was about 6.I was a kid. It was too late to evacuate.”The next day, Carol morphed into an extratropical cyclone over northern New England.Hurricane Carol crashes into Connecticut. The men stayed downstairs, took the widows out of their frames to let the water waste high to go through the house. The Pier and Bathhouse Complex two days after Hurricane Carol in 1954. I remember houses down, flattened. I remember seeing the dirty boiling yellow waves as far as the horizon!Me and my brother saw the steeple fall from my grandfathers house on 43 charter stMy parents, brother & I were living one block south of the Sears on North Main Street behind the Olds dealership. My Mom’s cousin had a beach home that was off it’s foundation floating in the water! NOAA photo.At the storm’s height, winds gusted up to 125 mph, blowing roofs off houses in Rhode Island.
Leaves were stripped from trees and stuck to the Old Meeting House Inn sign in the front.I was 6 yrs old and we lived right on Long Island sound in Old Greenwich. We went out and looked up and saw the blue skies and we’re happy that we could go out and play again but about how long I don’t remember the storm came again we didn’t realize that we were standing in the middle of the eye of hurricane Carol . Airport was inundated with a maximum of 2 feet of water.” The lowest pressure reading in Bridgeport was 28.87″.In Hartford at Brainard 2.36″ of rain fell. There was a little field mouse there, hanging on for dear life. The storm is the only category 2 to strike Connecticut in modern times (1938 was a category 3 in Connecticut) and remains the strongest storm to strike the state in the last 59 years.Bill, I was just a lad living on Long Island when Carol hit. He went back out and took movies of the waves coming over the houses on the beachfront. Someone else came to the phone and told me they thought I was dead.I guess I have some pictures somewhere too. Our friend was a bell hop!
The house on Nashua Street is gone now as is the Sears.One of my early memories: Carol’s winds tore a huge elm out of t he ground and deposited it where the two roofs came together on my grandparents’ big colonial in Raynham, MA.
We were in the cellar for 3 days. The next day we all walked down the street to see the Edgewood Yacht Club and all the boats up on the shore.I walked out of Oakland Beach 7 years old with my Mother and Brother! Dumb. They were married for over 50yrs before one passed.I didn’t know they retired “me”….. 2 years prior to my birth!1954…my first memory.. Didn’t know they retired her name.My first memory, at age 3, was our flooded cellar from Carol, next to the Merrimac in West Newbury…First and only time I experienced the eye of a hurricane I remember how much fun it was to play on all the fallen trees in the bright sun the next dayI was 6 months away from conception when that came through. )I was 16 at the time Carol went through Boston.I lived in an area called Roxbury.
And remember the howling winds, losing electricity, seeing the roof of a garage next door blow off, our apple tree blown over and huge fallen trees up and down the street laying on downed power lines. I stayed several days to help with clean up. During the storm my dad was driving cab. Very exciting for a little girl.I was 8, in the Ansonia Derby Valley in CT. In New Haven at Tweed 2.63″ of rain fell with a sustained wind of 38 mph out of the northeast.
The adults, not so much.My father bought us girls a two man saw so we could cut up a large Maple Tree that fell in our yard.Hubby’s Aunt cottage got demolished during that one at West IsI remember it well.
Hurricane Carol, one of the worst to hit New England, was so ferocious the Strong, sustained winds swept through Rhode Island and the eastern parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut, killing dozens and destroying buildings, automobiles, boats and crops. The report read as follows “Hurricane Carol did extensive damage to the shorelines of Connecticut. A day or two later, there was a photo on the front page of the Cape Cod Times of my mom in the back of the truck, reaching out her hand to help someone get on board. The links produced by the authority control template on Wikipedia go to authority control data in worldwide library catalogues. However, the kids had great fun rowing around the streets in row boats for about a week until the water receded. I guess it helped that the storm had my name.Returning to Providence for my junior year at Brown in early September found that the Crystal Tap at 3 Steeple Street was unable to serve tap beer for quite a while because the equipment had all been flooded.There were pumps running in downtown Providence well into October.I was 10 years old and in Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard. It was exciting and a little scary. I remember the boats turned over, piled on top of one another, wrecked on land. It again weakened before making landfall near Before Barbara struck the Outer Banks, officials ordered evacuations for a few islands, and several thousand tourists voluntarily left the region.On August 28, a tropical wave developed into a tropical depression near After bypassing New England, Carol brushed western The origins of Dolly were from a tropical wave that moved through the eastern Dolly weakened as it accelerated northeastward, although it still threatened to strike Bermuda with strong winds.
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