The Flood of 1938 Excerpt from: Bridge Dams On The Mohawk: David A. Watt’s Marvelous Creation by Michael Riley
The Flood of 1938 Excerpt from: Bridge Dams On The Mohawk: David A. Watt’s Marvelous Creation by Michael Riley “On the morning of Tuesday, September 20, 1938, the Schenectady Gazette carried a front-page story on a hurricane approaching southern Florida, with the estimated landfall being somewhere between Palm Beach and the Keys. This being a morning paper, the reporting was hours old by the time people in the Mohawk Valley read about it. During the day on the 20th the storm turned north without hitting Florida at all. By the 21st, the storm was southeast of Virginia with a forward speed of 50mph. On the 22nd, the storm had tracked over the middle of Long Island and into New England. And by the 23rd, the storm had slowed and turned to the northwest, placing it over Ontario, Canada. Newspaper reports say that between 125 to 700 were killed, mostly along the coast where towns and cities were caught unaware. ...
