Impact 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane

1 impact

1.1 north carolina , virginia
1.2 jersey shore
1.3 new england
1.4 uss warrington

impact

rainfall hurricane across northeastern united states


north carolina , virginia

passing close outer banks , hampton roads area, strong hurricane-force winds reported across eastern north carolina , southeastern virginia. though strongest winds recorded peaked @ around 90 mph (145 km/h), winds 105 mph (170 km/h) analyzed atlantic hurricane reanalysis project have occurred between 2 states. strong winds knocked out telecommunications networks on outer banks, telephone lines in manteo, north carolina , elizabeth city, north carolina destroyed storm. small homes in 2 cities leveled winds. power outages impacted new bern, north carolina. @ coast, hurricane s storm surge pushed 50 ft (15 m) inland along unprotected coastline, destroying hundreds of boats, damaging boardwalks, , depositing debris along carolina beaches. coastal farmland inundated, damage corn , other crops estimated @ thousands of dollars.

jersey shore

the hurricane infamous amount of damage caused along new jersey coastline. shore towns on long beach island, barnegat, atlantic city, ocean city, , cape may suffered major damage. long beach island , barnegat island both lost causeways mainland in storm cutting them off rest of new jersey. additionally both islands lost hundreds of homes, in particular harvey cedars section of long beach island many homes in town swept out sea. in atlantic city hurricane s storm surge forced water lobbies of many of resorts famous hotels. atlantic city boardwalk suffered major damage along boardwalk hall auditorium organ , city s famous ocean piers. both famed steel pier , heinz pier partially destroyed hurricane steel pier getting rebuilt. ocean city , cape may lost many homes in storm ocean city s boardwalk suffering significant damage. larry savadove devotes whole chapter in book great storms of jersey shore hurricane , imprint , lore left on jersey shore.

new england

rain totals of around 7 inches (178 mm) occurred in hartford, connecticut area, , city of bridgeport saw greatest official total @ 10.7 inches (272.8 mm). tobacco , fruit damage in connecticut totaled $2 million (1944 usd), similar overall damage costs occurring in rhode island. more $5 million (1944 usd) in damage occurred on cape cod can attributed lost boats, fallen trees , utility damage. total of 28 people died throughout new england result of storm. in bath, maine, 10-year old boy electrocuted when came contact downed wires. in augusta, maine, 40-year old woman run on bicyclist blinded heavy rains. 4.34 inches of rain fell during storm @ bates college. many tree limbs downed high winds during storm, , in androscoggin county, maine, 40% of apple crop destroyed.

uss warrington

the storm responsible sinking navy destroyer uss warrington (dd-383) approximately 450 miles (720 km) east of vero beach, fl, loss of 248 sailors. hurricane 1 of powerful traverse eastern seaboard, reaching category 4 when encountered warrington, , producing hurricane force winds on diameter of 600 miles (970 km). hurricane produced waves in excess of 70 feet (21 m) in height. hurricane , sinking of uss warrington documented in 1996 book dragon s breath - hurricane @ sea, written commander robert a. dawes, jr. (a former commanding officer of warrington), , published naval institute press.

in addition warrington , coast guard cutters bledsoe , jackson, hurricane claimed 136-foot (41 m) long minesweeper uss yms-409 foundered , sank 33 on board lost. further north, claimed lightship vineyard sound (lv-73), sunk loss of 12 aboard. drove s.s. thomas tracy aground in rehoboth beach, delaware.