The Hurricane with no name. On September 21st, 1938 New England saw a storm like no other.

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The storm struck in mid-afternoon and by night fall 312 men, women and children were dead and missing in the state of Rhode Island. As the picture on the right shows, the streets of Providence where buried under more then 10 feet of water. The picture on the right is Exchange Place, looking toward the Biltmore Hotel and the City Hall, just before the water reached its height. The streets and square were literally alive with floating automobiles, and all around in Exchange Place, were strings of swamped trolley cars