There are at least seven artists that have used the name Killer:
1. A me… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least seven artists that have used the name Killer:
1. A metal band from the United Kingdom
2. A metal band from Belgium
3. A rock band from Finland
4. A rock band from Switzerland
5. A punk band from Germany
6. A calypso musician from Trinidad
7. A death metal band from the United Kingdom

1) Killer (previously called White Diamond were a NWOBHM band from Salisbury, England who later changed their name to Genghis Khan, and then again to Tokyo Blade.

2) Originally founded in 1980, the Belgian Heavy Metal Band, Killer, released 4 albums until 1990 when they ceased performing and recording.

3) Killer is a rock band founded in 1999 in Helsinki, Finland.

4) A band from Switzerland, whose best known work was the 1986 album "Young Blood"
(http://www.killermetal.ch/)

5) Killer is also a side-project from the german punk band EA80.

6) Killer was a calypso artist from Trinidad.

7) Killer are Death metal band based in Blackpool, England.

Hurricane
Killer Lyrics

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Yeiyeah!

We're sickeningly pretty and unpleasantly vain
Something to really drive you insane
We're voluntarely obsessed with the play
So c'mon now, sing with the tempest & rock like a hurricane

I love to see you high 'cause of me

I drop you down to put you back on the peak
You're face to face with pride and you reap what you sow
Don't you see what you deny, don't you see what you deny?
So afraid to be alone

There's a winner in me and I'm breaking the ground
I am technology, I'll be sticking around
There's a winner in me, the sun in a cloud
There's a killer in me!

Yeiyeah!

Do the shadows bother you when you're all alone?
Does your mind play games with you or is it me after all?
No time for hesitation, are you ready to fall?
No time for useless patience, so how about some rock'n'roll?!
So afraid to be alone

Yeiyeah!

Overall Meaning

The song Hurricane by the band Killer's is a high energy, hard rock song with lyrics that touch upon themes of pride, vanity, and fear of being alone. The opening lines of the song set the tone for what's to come - the band is "sickeningly pretty and unpleasantly vain" and they know it. They are "voluntarily obsessed with the play" which could be interpreted as either their music or the lifestyle that comes with being in a rock band.

The chorus of the song is a call to action - "c'mon now, sing with the tempest & rock like a hurricane". It's clear that the band wants the listener to let go of their inhibitions and get caught up in the excitement of the music. The lyrics continue to explore the dynamic between the singer and the person they are singing to. The lines "I love to see you high 'cause of me, I drop you down to put you back on the peak" suggest that the singer enjoys having control over their listener's emotions. They want to see them at their highest point, but they also have the ability to bring them back down.

The second half of the song takes a darker turn, with lines like "there's a killer in me". The theme of fear of being alone is revisited with the repeated lines "so afraid to be alone". Overall, the song Hurricane is a fast-paced, high energy song with lyrics that touch upon themes of pride, vanity, and control, as well as fear of being alone.

Line by Line Meaning

We're sickeningly pretty and unpleasantly vain
Our appearance is attractive but our attitude is obnoxiously self-absorbed

Something to really drive you insane
We're intentionally provocative and irritating

We're voluntarely obsessed with the play
We willingly focus on the game of life and enjoy its challenges

So c'mon now, sing with the tempest & rock like a hurricane
Let's embrace the chaos and excitement of life and face it head-on with energy and enthusiasm

I love to see you high 'cause of me
I take pleasure in being the cause of your elation

I drop you down to put you back on the peak
I bring you down to earth and then elevate you to greater heights

You're face to face with pride and you reap what you sow
You confront your own ego and experience the consequences of your actions

Don't you see what you deny, don't you see what you deny?
Do you recognize what you refuse to acknowledge?

So afraid to be alone
You're fearful of being isolated

There's a winner in me and I'm breaking the ground
I have a competitive nature and am introducing new innovations and ideas

I am technology, I'll be sticking around
I embody progress and will persist in advancing

There's a winner in me, the sun in a cloud
I have a shining potential that can overcome any obstacle

There's a killer in me!
I possess lethal ambition and fearlessness

Do the shadows bother you when you're all alone?
Do you feel threatened by your own inner demons?

Does your mind play games with you or is it me after all?
Are you a victim of negative thoughts or am I the source of your problems

No time for hesitation, are you ready to fall?
The stakes are high and action must be taken, are you prepared for the consequences?

No time for useless patience, so how about some rock'n'roll?!
Delay won't lead to progress, let's get energetic and make things happen now

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

Allen Burt

5y↑28

There was no weather radar in 1938.
The barometers and observations were from ships and their locations.
The forecasters were lucky to gain much insight about
where it was heading or how strong it would be. Long Island, NY was utterly flattened.
The path of the storm went straight as an arrow
from south to north along the Conneticut River valley.

My familly lived in Keene, NH, where the eye passed through. The strength of the winds so far inland was amazing.
In Keene thousands of trees were felled by winds estimated at 90 MPH, 100 miles away from the coast, and there was massive flooding from four major streams,, the Asheulot River, the Branch, also called Otter Brook, Beaver Brook and White Brook, (a branch of which has been renamed Hurrican Brook, where my family owned land).
In the Keene city square, the spire of the United Church of Christ, my family's church, broke off and pierced the roof of the church like a spike into the main section of the church, nearly reaching the pews. It became an iconic photo of the damage, with a church in Dublin, NH, only twelve miles away also presenting such a phenomenon.
The valley of Keene also was heavily flooded by the unusually heavy rains in 1935.

All comments from YouTube:

RustedTelevisione

6y↑79

The video posted here is not in correct chronological order (one of the clips got messed up). To see correct video go here: https://youtu.be/evxGkUFpV54

Nicholas Barretto

6y↑12

This is a heartbreaking situation of the New England Hurricane of 1938 great video.😔👍🌪

3monsters014

6y↑4

The history channel is getting A LOT wrong has been for a while. Watch but check the facts.

Allan Davis

5y↑8

Thank you for your advice and help, however it has not spoilt the video for me and I thank you for the upload, sad but interesting insight of the destructive power of natures power, sometimes I think that we forget that we are just residents of our beautiful planet and Mother Nature gives us a kick as if to say “stop taking me for granted and taking my bounty for greedy selfish ends”, but do we listen, no, and we carry on burning fossil fuels and making things we don’t actually need, fighting wars and destroying our home, and then we wonder why, it seems the message never gets learned.

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Garbeaux

2y↑53

Katharine Hepburn wrote about how terrible this was in her autobiography. She included pics of entire houses being ripped from their foundations and floating away. It’s a great book.

Janet Harned

38w↑5

It truly is, and read that book. I donated it to a library, and loved the book!

Valerie Leonard

32w

Could you tell me the name of it? I love autobiographies 🙂❣️

Sharon AllisonBrisbin

31w↑1

I read the same book and never forgot her words

Garbeaux

31w↑2

@Valerie Leonard Me by Katharine Hepburn. It’s literally titled that.

Robert Neville

26w↑1

I love the sign Kathrin Hepburn had on the gate to her home
PLEASE JUST GO AWAY 😅

Christine Kaye

3y↑468

If this hurricane had not happened, I might never have been born. My father, a doctor, went to a nearby school to help with the injured. My mother was a nurse at the school. They met, fell in love, and were married in December of 1939. They remained married and very much in love until my mother died 30 years later. In the midst of heartbreak and tragedy, a lifelong love was born.

Elizabeth Chodkowski

2y↑5

Irene Feltham

2y↑19

Thank You for Your telling of a Beautiful Love Story ~ Blessings to You and Your Mother and Father in Heaven Together💕✨🙏🏻🌹

Christine Kaye

2y↑4

@Irene Feltham 🥰

CutZy McCall

2y↑4

Where was this, Christine? I'm from Newton, Mass. and I heard all about this as a kid.

Bad2da Bone

2y↑6

Nice story!

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wmnoffaith1

3y↑108

My father was one of those Navy weathermen who reported the weather by observation, and plotting graphs, weather balloons, calculations, etc. He was stationed up by Newfoundland in the U.S.S. NEWPORT News. He used to tell me stories about keeping watch and going out to take readings during the night in really high winds and having to wear a chain around his waist which he clipped to the ship to keep from being blown overboard, and how sometimes he was blown up in the air, horizontal to the deck. He had a lot of nerve and courage

Kathie Mahoney

2y↑3

Crazy!!!!!

Mr Artician

4y↑134

My mother lived in a small northern Massachusetts town and told me how she was walking home from school that day and huge trees were being blown down all around her. She mentioned how people simply had no idea what was happening and that there was absolutely no warning, just as this documentary mentions.

RustedTelevisione

4y↑29

Mr Artician true story! My great Uncle was picking blueberries in Rhode Island when the hurricane hit. It came out of nowhere to wreak havoc! He was lucky to escape with his life intact.

Bree Badger

3y↑14

That reminds me of the derecho that hit Iowa last summer. I live in Central Iowa. We had no idea what was coming for us. Sure, we had a severe thunderstorm warning and the warning said "high winds" were likely, but they say that about every storm (it is Iowa). I was at the doctor's office and wandered out to the glass entryway to watch the storm only to realize those winds were... way too strong for us to be in the entryway. Shortly after that, the sirens went off and they evacuated ppl to the basement of the clinic - half carrying some disabled and elderly ppl down the stairs.

Watching hurricane documentaries makes me so glad that I live where I do. It's not the wind that usually kills in hurricanes - it's usually the flooding. And after going through a "land hurricane" with sustained winds of 90-100 mph? I'll pass.

Eddie Haskell

3y↑8

@Bree Badger I thought you were going say when you stood in that entry way the glass exploded from the wind and pressure. Glad you made it.
I also thought (I don't do that often, the thinking part) you were going to say; it's not that the wind is blowing,
it's "what" the wind is blowing that can hurt you..

Bree Badger

3y↑10

@Eddie Haskell Yeah, we were all fine, but there were a lot of ppl that got caught out in the open and had no safe place to go to. There's a documentary where one guy's workplace was literally torn apart by the winds - he hid in the bathroom and recorded the whole thing.

When we were headed home, we saw a shed that was literally upside down in a backyard. I'm not even sure it was their shed. My parents lost the roof of the animal shed (thankfully no animals) and my grandparents house got a branch through the roof.

A year later, half the trees that were taken out by the derecho were still on the ground. Clean up is taking a very long time and we lost a lot of mature trees too.

BTW, if anyone wants free lumber, come to Iowa and offer to haul it away for farmers. They'll be happy to get rid of it - especially older farmers like my grandparents neighbors. He doesn't have the necessary equipment to do it and he doesn't have any living kids. There's a lot of old farmers in the same situation.

Jay Lan

2y↑6

@Bree Badger There's trees in Iowa? ;)

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Matthew Storer

2y↑57

What's even better than this amazing and historic documentary are the comments. I enjoyed reading the personal family connections to this storm as well as the praise for the well crafted documentary. No insidious rude comments or derogatory remarks. It's simply wonderful and helps restore my faith in humanity. Kudos to all the great comments.

RustedTelevisione

2y↑6

And your comment here is one of the great ones. Thank you for commenting!

acerjuglans

4y↑50

Having grown up in New England, I always heard stories of the Hurricane of '38. It seems strange that some folks haven't heard of it. So much of our local region was affected by it. There are photos and stories from survivors in every town's historical society nearby.

pamela H

26w

I never heard of it, I was born late 60s my mom would have been 10

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Wilford Fraser

3y↑65

The fact that Katherine Hepburn survived this storm when the house she was in was destroyed is just so....her.

sammygirl6910

2y↑12

She probably looked great doing it, too. 😍

Marianna Maver

4y↑40

My mother often talked about living through this hurricane when it went through Vermont later in the day on September 21st. By then its power was greatly reduced, but it still caused a huge amount of damage, especially in the southern part of the state... Mom's folks lived on the edge of the Northeast Kingdom, in Boltonville . My mom was 13 - she & her parents sheltered in the root cellar under the center of their house, which was on top of a hill & must have taken a beating from the wind, but ultimately was no worse for the wear. Mom WAS worse for the wear, tho .. after she married my dad & moved to Chicago she carried her terror of out-of-control windstorms with her & she instilled a fear of tornados in all of us!

I never realized how devastating this hurricane was in southern New England, tho, until I started researching what had happened in Vermont... How horrifying to have that kind of a storm & the surge just come upon you like that with no warning! I'm sure my mom had been made well aware of that aspect of the story after the fact, which undoubtedly added to her terror of huge storms. Tragic story.

billy smith

4y↑49

Dad was a tug captain. he told me a story of being in a storm for 3 days 2 nights. Dad and his deckhand were trapped in the wheelhouse. both took turns holding the wheel during the storm. some windows in the wheelhouse were knocked out. i think it was this storm because they were off Boston according to his story. RIP Dad. RiP Gabe his deckhand who stood his watch with Dad

Matthew Storer

2y↑7

That had to have been 48 hours of pure hell. Rest in peace to your father.

Kathie Mahoney

2y↑5

God bless your dad & his deckhand.

Steve Wirth

2y↑9

An excellent documentary of tragedy through the eyes of the survivors. Never knew the story of this terrible storm until now. Many lessons to be learned.

Sevrah Chase

3y↑24

I remember watching this documentary a year later in August 2005 I lived through Hurrican Katrina. I Still live on the Mississippi gulf coast to this day. I'll never forget it. We had to climb up in the rafters to get away from the water. If our house would have been one more street closer to the beach the house would have disintegrated and my family and I would have drowned. I thank Jesus we survived it. We were so blessed when so many other people lost there lives.

Julie Blanke

2y↑2

AMEN! GOD WAS LOOKING OUT FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, THAT'S FOR SURE

Kathie Mahoney

2y↑2

God bless you guys.

Chantel Labonne

3y↑90

This documentary was excellent. It was released in 2006, and at the end of the film it says that we can expect another more deadly northeastern hurricane. And of course, 6 years later comes Super Storm Sandy, a gigantic storm that did what no other storm before has ever done. She came back around onto land 3 TIMES. And it was a horror. I was in the state of NJ when Super Storm Sandy happened, and it was a nightmare for sure. But this documentary had me sitting on the edge of my seat all the way through it! So sad for the children that died, and all the other hundreds that perished. And I also had no idea that Katharine Hepburn had been in such a tragedy. Amazing story! Thank you History Channel!

Sydnarella

3y↑8

yeah, I was wondering if Sandy was really the first huge storm to hit the northeast since then. I live on the Gulf Coast where hurricanes are unfortunately just a way of life. And still meteorology is imperfect. We all stayed in our homes through Sally because the meteorologists told us it was downgrading to a tropical storm. There are simply too many of these to leave home every time a hurricane is percolating, so you have to save it for the big ones. With Sally, everyone in the area stayed and we were all sitting in our homes at the same time thinking we were going to die.

TMP

3y↑6

That´s why History is so important.... Including politics history, but nevermind that.

Evelyn Miranda

3y↑5

Poor kids how horrible .

Janet O'Connor

3y↑5

@Sydnarella Actually there was a bad hurricane that hit NY and NJ since then before Sandy. It was Hurricane Belle and it struck on August 9 1976. Nobody ever seems to talk about or remember that one since it was only the early part of August.

Buck Berthod

2y↑1

It was govt engineered like Katrina was. No storm had ever turned 90° towards land. It's damn near impossible as they are reliant on current to move. It's why they move more or less in a straight line from point of origin to where it lands or dispates

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Toni

2y↑11

Stunning reference. I've never heard about this awful thing. Thank you, from Australia. Very well told. I have to admit, for this hurricane to go so far north, the weather must have been really strange.

Mary MacDonald

3y↑15

What a great video, beautifully filmed. So sad to hear about all those who died or suffered loss of family members.

Andrew Tornadoboy

6y↑59

I talked with a guy whose father had a house on the beach during this, it disappeared and the second floor from a neighbor's house ended up on the spot. He ended up putting it on blocks, fixed it up and used it as a house instead, I have to admire his resourcefulness in the face of such a disaster!

BIGBLOCK5022006

2y↑8

Improvise, overcome, and adapt.

Buck Berthod

2y↑4

"Hey Bob! You want this back or can I use it?"
"Ah hell George, keep it. Don't feel like lugging it back up here anyway"

Adeline

I sure hope the neighbor told him he could keep it. Stealing is not funny or admirable or resourceful; it's immoral.

joan smith

4y↑37

I'm from Long Island NY. 1938 was before I was born but I know from history that this hurricane was so powerful that when it crossed the east end of the island it carved an inlet in Center Moriches, wiping away a huge chunk of land. The water flooded in and never left. Today people moor their boats there.

Just some coronavirus with Internet Access

3y↑1

Crazy

DzyMsLizzy

2y↑27

My mother was in high school at that time. She and some friends were outside after school, and walked down to the bridge over the Apponogansett River, having fun leaning on the wind, and not falling over, until they suddenly realized they were in ankle deep water. About then, the local cops came along and chased them off the bridge telling them to go home.

RustedTelevisione

2y↑4

Wow ! What a story !

Patricia Miner

4y↑18

My mother was 3 years old and remembers climbing out of a second story floor window into a boat. She wasn't near the ocean but it must've been bad. The water was up to the second floor.

Anna Whiteley

3y↑25

My late father was 3 and living on Cape Cod during this storm. He was very nervous about any weather up untill the end of his life, and always kept a NOAA weather radio on hand just in case.🙏

Thomas Prindle

7y↑61

Farther inland in Massachusetts my parents drove through the storm, unaware that it was a hurricane. My mother always said she thought it was a "straight line wind." A Rhode Island friend in later years remarked on what a terrible thing a "loose ocean" can be.

Liberty Justice

4y↑32

My father was 7 years old in Rhode Island in the '38 hurricane and also went through hurricane Carol in 1954, when the streets of the town were under water, and he pulled 2 elderly people out of their car. There was almost no warning for either storm.
He was 23 years old during hurricane Carol and remembers crossing the street with a transistor radio held up to his ear, in chest deep water, and the announcer was saying, "there's a small weather disturbance in South county". This was 1954 and that's how little warning anyone was given. After the storm he rode all along the coast to Providence, and said the houses were completely destroyed all the way up the coast, leaving tiny pieces like matchsticks.
After the '38 storm, a huge wide paved Road was built leading out of Galilee and the coastal towns. It's called escape road by the locals.

Jon Larsen

3y↑2

Wasn't that Hurricane Hazel in 54?

Beth Morano

1y↑5

My mom told me about this hurricane. She was 10 at the time. Just horrific.

Will G

6y↑24

My father lived in East Providence RI . East Providence RI has a small bluff that overlooks the bay, there is some land down beneath that bluff that had houses on it. My grandfather told me that he went out to the bluff, a short walk from his house, and watched the storm surge come up the bay. He said the wall of water just washed over those lower houses and after it passed they were gone. A wall of their house had blown in during the storm as well. My father was let out of school during the storm, the kids walked home. My father said there were power lines down and sparking.

M.E.D.

5y↑5

From what I hear most kids were let out of school early because they were seeing these strong winds and whole limbs and branches of trees were being blown off trees in one unit.

feuriger Stern

3y↑19

Such a well done documentary, including the personal side of miracles and tragedies. I especially enjoyed the evolving science and math of the time.

Mary Ellen Peterson

4y↑18

I remember my dd saying he was working with his dad in a mill in Pineville,CT. There was a huge oil tank outside the mill. It got caught up in the storm,and it took a lot of time between getting it back, and all the things they had to do before the mill could reopen again. He said the wind was so violebt that you couldn't stand, but that was the end of it.

John Noecker

6y↑78

This just might be the best weather story presentation I've seen. Thanks. And man, what harrowing personal stories of survival...and tragedy. We are all at the mercy of our host...in so many ways.

Maria Stevens

5y↑6

John Noecker I live in the Philippines where Tornadoes are quite common...The worse thing, is knowing that when they strike, there is nothing to stop them.

inkyguy

4y↑7

John Noecker, watch the documentary on the 1900 Galveston hurricane.

Julie Sprik

2y↑4

@Joe Kulik Not everyone feels the way you do.

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Della Hicks

2y↑8

I am always glad when I see worthwhile documentaries come across my YouTube suggestions!
The worst summer storm I've been through where I live on the prairies in Canada, is peanuts compared to this! We have to learn to exist in -50° for weeks on end, but even that is predictable to a point!

M.E.D.

7y↑16

I cannot believe more of this was not more well known over the years. I live in the area and I never knew the names of these victims or near victims until very recently.

TC

1y↑1

With all the BS of today, real tragedies don’t matter anymore.

Cara Being Blue

3y↑70

That last line though..."Just when you think..." - a storm or a virus comes along to "show you how powerless you are." Timely.

Abbey Jane

3y↑8

610,000 dead and trumpies spew their ignorance

Fun Size

3y↑7

@Abbey Jane he calls it "a flu" and expects anyone to take him seriously. smh

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B W

3y↑126

Accidentally clicked on this and was going switch and then I heard the narrator’s voice. He has never narrated a bad documentary so I stayed and watched. He is still batting 1000. Top notch stuff

Nitric Oxide

3y↑17

Him and David Ackroyd (who voiced a lot of late 90s/early 2000s documentaries on History Channel) are just such enrapturing narrators.

BIGBLOCK5022006

2y↑17

The narrator is Edward Herrmann.

Kay Hathaway

2y↑5

Exactly. Same here. I love his voice.

Kay Hathaway

2y↑12

@BIGBLOCK5022006
Thank you for telling us his name.

BIGBLOCK5022006

2y↑4

@Kay Hathaway You're welcome.

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Evelyn Miranda

3y↑34

My mom was 9 years old .I often think of my grandparents. Surviving the Spanish flu and surviving the depression.🙏

Sean Furlong

2y↑7

And surviving World War I and World War II.

Douglas Griffiths

2y↑3

My mom was 8 at the time. My dad was 10. Both gone now. (Jan Griffiths).

Worldwide Wyatt

3y↑35

My grandmother lived in Westerly, RI (Misquamicut Beach) during the hurricane of ‘38 and the storm surge literally moved their house. Her brothers still own the house and ride their old beach cruisers out there in the summer,

Brian Brady

3y↑2

I go there every summer from Worcester

jmad627

2y↑1

Spent quite a few Saturdays there as a kid in the late sixties.

Richard Corlett

1y↑3

What a horrifying event. Can't believe that top man at the weather agency wasn't fired. Oh, Geoffrey Moore Jr. Is really a doom and gloom guy, even after decades.

Rhys Fuuma

2y↑38

I feel for the bus driver. He did his job to the absolute best of his abilities and always made sure the safety of his kids were his top priority until he safely dropped them off at their homes. The one gentleman may not have ever forgiven him for his sisters passing, but all the other townspeople never blamed him for what happened.

Kathie Mahoney

2y↑11

I agree. The poor guy was shattered. He did what he thought was right to protect the children.

Willow Bee

2y↑5

No he did not he should have backed up once he saw that water

Rhys Fuuma

2y↑8

@Willow Bee be negative all you want, he had a job to do to get the kids home which until that day he had done without incident. He has to go that way and couldn't go any other way to do his job.

paul thomas

He screwed up badly you don't take chances with children at all

Rhys Fuuma

@paul thomas like he was supposed to know that big wave was gonna hit while dropping the kids off.

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Krista Sinclair

2y↑5

I'm from Massachusetts and a huge new England history buff! I have read a few books on this, but happy to see it made into a documentary 😀

RustedTelevisione

2y↑2

The book Sudden Sea by RA Scotti is one I’d recommend. “…Former journalist and mystery novelist Scotti successfully applies her skills in both genres to this detailed retelling of the 1938 hurricane that ripped across seven Northeastern states and killed 682 people, "the most destructive natural disaster in U.S. history—worse than the San Francisco earthquake, the Chicago fire, or any Mississippi flood." Although the enormity of the destruction has been written about before, Scotti focuses on "a few experiences that seem representative of many more" through interviews with hurricane survivors, their families and friends, as well as previously published recollections by survivors, including the late Katharine Hepburn. Scotti's detailed look at the general extent of the hurricane's destruction adds poignancy to individual stories, such as those of Joseph Matoes, who sees his children swept away from their school bus as they are battered by huge waves; Lillian Tetlow and Jack Kinney, two sweethearts who survive a storm that destroys Napatree, R.I., and who later marry; and Charles Pierce, a "green and unsure" junior forecaster for a woefully underprepared U.S. Weather Bureau (now the National Weather Service) who stands against his experienced superiors as the only forecaster to recognize the danger of the hurricane. Scotti also skillfully presents the details of a hurricane, although she reminds us that "after decades of study and with all the technological tools of the trade... we still cannot predict a hurricane more than twenty-four hours in advance….”

Elena Latici

2y↑3

My grandparents, father, aunts and uncles lived through this hurricane in Putnam, Connecticut. I grew up hearing stories about it.

Tabby Cat

2y↑7

I live in CT and I can't tell you how many stories I've heard about that time. Some heartbreaking stories . Some miracles. But none boring.

Chelsea Wales

2y↑2

Living right on the Great South Bay, my young grandparents weathered this storm, having some protection on the south shore of Long Island from the waves by the barrier islands, but nothing stops the storm surge.

60+ years later, in the same shore town, we weathered the same high tide storm surge during Sandy. I remember watching the forecast, thinking the storm wouldn’t hit, until it swung back at the very last minute and slammed right into us. The water was still receding when it started to snow.

Garren Groom

37w↑1

Fascinating. This documentary was well done w/perfect narration. Also, Hepburn said she found her Oscar statuette undamaged among the debris from her family home.

Parky 52

3y↑10

My Aunt was stranded in one of the few houses left standing at Misquamicut Beach for several days because of this hurricane. She lit a candle and put it a window to let relatives know she was ok until rescued.

Dennis Lavoie

2y↑4

My mother and father were just kids in ‘38; my mom 13 and my dad 11. Their memories of that day were as vivid even 50 years later as they were back in ‘38.

Wendy Woo

2y↑4

My paternal grandparents lived in the Providence area all their lives’ they were married with two children (grandma was expecting #3), grandpa wrote about his experience with the 1938 storm and Hurricane Carol in 1954 and even kept copies of the Providence papers from that time, absolutely huge newspapers with headlines about the storm and The European situation with Hitler. Grandpa said that they while knew a storm was coming, they were unaware of how big it was. My parents grew up hearing these stories and experienced the 1954 hurricane themselves.

John Hiram

8y↑97

My parents were in Providence RI and caught in the tide surge up to waist. So lucky they were fine. Great to hear them recount that days events. I miss them alot

Entity

7y↑8

John Hiram I live in Fairhaven MA I clicked this because I live in NE

Zari Ballard

6y↑12

John Hiram I'm from those island as well and my dad, who is now 90, still talks about this storm and how he and my grandparents and his brothers barely survived. They had to move through the yard in a chain against the wind and the front side of their house crumbled in.

An Autistic Reacts

6y↑6

@Entity I live in New Bedford and I really don't think the world's largest hurricane barrier would be a mach for that much water. I live across the street from the ocean and I know this house would get washed away.

Entity

6y↑1

JJ Beans downtown or city?

Joe DiGiovanni IV

5y↑10

I live in North Providence, and every time I go to downtown Providence, I am always reminded by the markers on many of the buildings, denoting the water height from ground level. In most places, these markers are easily 8' to 10' high, its surreal to be in such a condensed city center, imagining being surrounded by such a depth of sea water

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INSERTNAME xHERE

2y↑7

I've been born, raised and lived in NE all my life, and I've never heard of this. My grandparents would be relatively young during this time, and lived in MA during this time as well(i believe anway). My parents lived through the blizzard of 78, and they told me all about that. I know storms, like tropical depressions, are possible here.. among others.. but nothing of this size

Tandi P

2y↑7

Just found and subscribed to your channel after watching a different video about the tornadoes that hit in Michigan and crossed the river into Ontario, Canada. Both, very well done.

Evelyn Miranda

3y↑7

This is so hard to watch😢. I always admire Katharine Hepburn .I never knew she went through this.May all the perish rest in peace.🙏

TrangPak2

2y↑5

I could listen to Geoffrey Moor all day. Such a great storyteller

Adeline

Too bad he's also a liar. There's no way he saw two sharks circling them 🙄 Sharks can sense the change in pressure ahead of time and they swim away or swim deeper to avoid storms. They would never ever swim towards the worst part of the storm, and swim at the water's surface no less. I also very seriously doubt he ever watched a shark eat a tuna. It's possible, but tuna swim much faster than almost all species of sharks so it's unlikely he actually saw it happen.

Aidah Di Leoni

5y↑13

When I lived in Newport, Rhode Island in the 1980s people were still talking about this terrible hurricane. The hurricane wiped out a huge summer amusement park on one of Newport’s beaches and Mrs. William K Vanderbilts tea house on the Cliff Walk was cast out into the sea. It was later recovered in the 1980s.

artchem

3y↑2

That is very interesting! 😓🇺🇸🌪⏳🏡🏖

Zeno Lachance

3y↑3

My mother lived in Fall River Massachusetts in 1938 Fall River Massachusetts is way up River from Narragansett Bay. The storm surge was so big that there was a 200-foot freighter on South Main Street. South Main Street is about a quarter mile from the water. I found this amazing

D R

2y↑4

So glad Kathryn Hepburn turned down gone with the wind. Philadelphia story is one of my favorites. She, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart were epic in their performances.

TrangPak2

2y↑1

Katharine was never going to play the role of Scarlett. Had Vivien not won the role most likely Paulette Goddard would have played the role

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Satori

2y↑6

I live on the coast of Mississippi where Hurricane Katrina and Zeta hit. I can tell you that storm surge is like a tsunami. They don't just gradually rise, it comes in roaring super fast and by the time you think it is getting deep, it is too late. Please evacuate if you are in a flood zone in a hurricane! Get out don't drown.

Kathie Mahoney

2y↑2

Wow. My God, horrific. I actually like wild weather storms. I have been in a hurricane, tropical storm & a tornado. Crazy terrifying. This story is horribly tragic & a testament to the human spirit. The children in the school bus is just heartbreaking. I cried listening to this story.

jeremy pearson

2y↑7

I feel desperately sorry for all that perished and especially the bus driver, not to mention the father of four. My first hurricane experience was Andrew in 1992 almost exactly ten years after I moved to FL from the UK. Hurricanes are terrible things but tornados maybe worse. At least with a hurricane we get a warning now.

Sunny DAze

2y↑1

True. Tornadoes and fires are much more dangerous to me, as they can come right out of the blue. Hurricanes at least you have time to prepare.

gabe 25

3y↑9

In addition to learning about this hurricane, I also learned that looting is not just a modern-day event. Heck, these people even robbed corpses. But, I guess it really depends on what they took. Was it items for survival, like money and food, or did they steal pleasure items, like radios and TV’s. Regardless, it was a darn good video, thanks for posting.

reayd999

3y↑3

I know this was 8 months ago, but I have an answer for you. My mother was 9 years old when this hit, in Stonington, Ct. She told me that bodies were washing up on the beach for several days, and as soon as they did, looters would go out there with some sort of bolt cutters and cut off the fingers to get at the rings. The bodies were bloated, so they couldn't just slip them off. If the body still had clothes on they would go through the pockets. She never mentioned the National Guard protecting the corpses, so I guess they didn't show up right away. There were people sitting on the beach waiting for the bodies to wash up, and sometimes fights would break out among the looters. She told me about that when I was pretty young, but I never got that memory out of my head

gabe 25

3y↑4

@reayd999 What gruesome, nasty human beings. Thank you for responding.

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Ndow Roccus

2y↑4

We live in western Massachusetts…the Connecticut river is 200 yds from house, but I’m on the side of a large hill, so it’s about 100 yds down also. As the stories of horrible strange deadly weather and fires everywhere…up here in New England - we have had some of the greatest weather for the last 10 years I can remember. We used to have snow everywhere in the winter (normally November through January is our snowfall, many a nor’easter’ would also hit us). Again, the last ten or so years, not much for snowfall either, and out snowfall is now December-January).
No matter what anyone says, we have the best weather here in New England since 1990ish. I feel so lucky…but we used to have a saying, in New England…”if you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute”. Now we have mellow season changes, mild winters and mellow summers (we still get humid days, but not as bad as it used to be).
All this, I want to make a prediction: New England is going to get pounded by one or more Hurricanes, just like this one, I’m guessing. Or incredibly awesome weather here, is just too good to be true…WAY TOO GOOD! It’s like the calm before the Storm(s)⛈ .
If you live in New England, I suggest planning ahead. At the very least, have an escape plan where you can stay at a relatives place with a fallout shelter at the best…at least a tub within a basement with cushions in a one story house. I could be wrong, but I have a premonition feeling about future hurricanes in western mass.

Astilea Lavatica

Been watching our climate "change" since the early 80's. On same parallel as you. It's definitely a calm before a storm.

CutZy McCall

2y↑4

This feels biblical; a Moby Dick of a story. My mother was a tiny girl walking home from elementary school when this happened. She lived in a huge house made of stone. It wasn't harmed by the storm, nor was her family, but everyone from that time remembers it well as terrifying.

Thomas Caroli

4y↑71

Loved these Documentaries on the History Channel. Wish they would bring them back

Adam Frazer

3y↑14

(Sigh) I hear you man 👍 Maybe one day our society will snap out of it's stupor and decide they don't enjoy watching 'Dangerously obese people' or 'Screw thy neighbour' etc...

In the meantime, I think it's inspired quite a few channels to make quality programs in the spirit of what these tv networks abandoned.

SALT PETER

3y↑3

@Adam Frazer I enjoyed reading your comment. Thanks. A good perspective.

Cyndi Alver

3y↑6

I wish the History Channel would bring back shows about history!

Pisces in Pieces

3y↑4

Me too. 🙁 History on a history channel? Please. Next it’ll be only music on MTV; what would we do without teen moms??
😏😏😏

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TrinityToo

1y↑1

One of the best documentaries I have ever seen, should win an award! Thanks.

Allen Burt

5y↑28

Mr Artician

4y↑4

My father and mother had a summer camp in Henniker, NH on "French's Pond", which was a small lake, and I remember one of the French family members, Ken, telling me that so many trees were blown down they used the lake to store all the trees until they could be milled. He said there were so many of them you could walk right across the whole lake on them.

kenworthNH

4y↑1

@Mr Artician "The only Henniker on Earth." I see that on the oil trucks around here.

Dianne Faith

2y↑4

This horrible and monstrous devastation happened exactly in 2017 in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 with Hurricane Maria which was Cat. 5. I lost part of my house, it was real scary!!! So many lives lost!! I know I cannot compare both hurricanes 🌀 due to the fact that we, now a days have sophisticated instruments to help us to prepare beforehand. What a scary experience!!! ☹️

IslandGirl 9152

4y↑82

First time I have ever heard this story. So shocking and sad. I really touches me in a huge way because my hometown is Galveston Texas.

Karen Hill

4y↑4

Me TOO..just happened on it ..couldnt put. It down"..but so sad......so your fr GALVESTON..?? I love Galveston..my parents Honeymooned at the Galvez"??.i hope still there...i have such fond feelings about Galveston...was ther about16yrs ago w my baby & His Dad...last & only time..fasinated..we r not together & im a single Mom ..im fr Ft Worth originally....living in LUBBOCK.though. my boy is 17...one day i will go back....Nice talking to you.....🌹

Alden Stallworth

4y↑3

Well if you would have seen what katrina did you would be amazed

Ms ATXGault

3y↑2

I'm in Austin! Love fishing in Galveston

jason david

3y↑1

@Trent Cruise I've never holidayed on Jupiter before. is it nice?

Amazing Motion Pictures

@Trent Cruise Jupiter’s Cyclone Is not Tropical And Thus not a hurricane

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Rebecca Dickinson

3y↑5

Great documentary! I lived through Hurricane Gloria in 1985 & Hurricane Andrew in 1992!

Green Deane

4y↑13

My mother -- Mae Lydia Putney -- was 13 and remembered the wind knocking down all the trees on one side of a mountain.

Sheila Hammond

2y↑7

It was a miracle that the Moor family survived!

An Autistic Reacts

6y↑8

My grandmother was in New Bedford, Massachusetts which is right on the ocean. She was 3 years old and her house collapsed on top of her and she was trapped for 3 days.

Cynthia Tolman

3y↑4

My grandmother in Keene NH kept the newspaper that had this storm all over the front page. The hundreds of years old Elm trees on Elm St were all destroyed. The pictures were horrible. Growing up there everytime we had a thunderstorm we all ran for the cellar, thankfully we were okay, but I wonder if some of the fear came from fear passed down.

Euclidus Chaumeau

Some of the worst destruction happened in the hurricane of '38 in the forests of New England and the flooding of the streams and rivers. Most of the old growth forests of New England were destroyed as it made its way north, going inland.

anye76

4y↑20

Born and raised in Western Massachusetts and never once heard about this hurricane. You'd think they'd teach us about this. Fascinating and horrifying. Those cocky arrogant turds from the weather bureau sure have blood on their hands. Just because some weather phenomenon doesn't seem likely don't discount it. Shoot back in 2011 an EF3 hit my hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts. Powerful story

RustedTelevisione

4y↑3

anye76 so true. Horrifying. I grew up in a town featured here in this doc. My town lost many residents in this storm It’s still to this day, 71 years later, a well known event. Hope it never happens again. Complete devastation.

acerjuglans

4y↑2

8 Bit Hero yes, indeed. It seems the southwestern region of MA is a mini tornado alley.

Tandi P

Why in the world would they have had blood on their hands?!? Their methods of knowing the weather back then were in it's infancy & was in absolutely no way, shape or form like what it's like now 🥺😳🥺

be4

2y↑2

@Tandi P because they ignored the young “upstart” and insisted it was a gale, not a hurricane. Their ego prevented them from admitting they were wrong.

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Captain Tom's Sea Stories

3y↑18

About 30 years ago I was walking down a beach in southport CT and found a weathered brass hub cap from a chevrolet, a bit later a friend had a great almanac with all the years of cars and I looked it up , it was from a 38 Chevy, perhaps could have been on a nice new car washed into the sound years before from one of the numerous cottages that were nearby before the hurricane hit and were lost..

Pamela Russell

2y↑2

weather history is so interesting. the same weather conditions were in place in 1888 and 1900 (the year of the Galveston hurricane). Extreme heat across the west & midwest, late summer rains in the east (but the rains don't cool the atmosphere).

Daren

28w

Read the excellent book Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson . It is about that 1900 Galveston Hurricane September 1900! I believe over 6,000 people died in that Hurricane! 🤔

Opal Glass

2y↑6

At least Mr. Moor was there for his family in the storm and in the rebuilding.

Also, something tells me that this hurricane was just like Hurricane Sandy - because both combined with another storm that allowed it to go farther north than it should have.

Nancy Fahey

2y↑1

I do appreciate the weather services we have today. I watch them daily being in Florida.

honeyrose

3y↑6

Never heard of this. Incredibly tragic! Thanks for the upload.

Charlene Singer

26w

They didn't put it in the World until 2005.

Chris Taylor

1y↑1

I've lived in R.I. most of my life. My family has been here for generations. I was told stories of providence being underwater. In Woonsocket some of the deceased in freshly dug Graves floated up in their caskets. The whole shoreline changed.

Warmbrother

1y↑1

My mother was almost killed in this hurricane. We lived in Troy, NY at the time. She told me that she went outside during the storm, walking to a dentist appointment when the wind snapped off a huge tree limb that landed only a couple of inches ahead of her. If she had taken one step further, it would have ended her life.
Many years later, when I lived in Providence, RI, I saw that the downtown buildings had plaques showing the high-water levels of the tidal wave generated by the 1938 hurricane. The building code had been changed so all the store windows had to be small and high up to avoid flood damage in case of future storms.
The coastal town of Westerly, RI was totally wiped out by the hurricane. I remember viewing only rows of the remaining foundations and basements of the homes that were destroyed. https://youtu.be/-4Lf5uIoQKU

Ginger Shiffer

4y↑21

😢 rest in peace to all especially the 6 little lives that were lost🙏

Theresa Malinoski

4y↑7

My Dad who grew up in NorthCentral Connecticut remember walking home from school and the trees were down. That was his experience of this storm.

casual crab warfare

Fairfield? Oxford?

Ryan Black

@Trent Cruise Ted Bundy lol

Rae Mini Hopa

52w↑1

Such a very tragic event, thank God for the weather service we have today. I live in the hurricane prone deep south and very thankful we usually have enough notice to get out. I agree with Bill about the bus driver... driving a bus full of kids on to a causeway inundated with water was a catastrophic and Idiotic decision. It didn't matter if he knew it was a hurricane or not. Backing up and getting the kids to safety should have been his first priority.

Jon Stefanik

4y↑9

After the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, they constructed the Jamestown Bridge, which connected Jamestown and North Kingstown, RI. It opened in July, 1940. It was built too quick and it was too narrow. It's replacement, a four-laned roadway would open October, 1992.

Euclidus Chaumeau

3y↑5

That first iron bridge was a scary ride. It was extremely narrow and had the open iron grate roadway that made a loud noise and felt like you were driving on sheer ice.

Deborah S

2y↑1

That was THE scariest bridge to drive across. I'm getting vertigo just thinking of it!!!! The open iron sound under the tires..uugghgh..

Paul Thomas Shepherd

2y↑2

At just under 4 years old, living in Salem, Massachusetts, I don't remember the storm but do remember playing with a little toy axe on a huge downed tree. Evidently, Salem did not see the torment that other areas lived and died through. I wonder now just how far up the Massachusetts coast the brunt of the storm went, especially hearing that Maine was involved.

Jenna Goode

3y↑5

My heart goes out to so many people who lost their lives....such a terrible storm....But....i guess Miss Hepburn recovered from having a bad day ....really

Dusk to Dawn

2y↑2

My great great grandfather's fishing boat was thrown out of Bristol harbor and ended up landing in a nearby graveyard when this hurricane hit Bristol.

Yvonne Grassi

Wow

Black Onyx Cat

2y↑3

I live in Lyme, Connecticut which is about 20 miles from where Katherine Hepburn's house was in Old Saybrook. I take my kids to play mini golf at Saybrook Point near there and it's very beautiful but if there was a huge Hurricane it would still be extremely devastating to this area.

Rik Soria

30w

Most of been real frighting for all the people.

Bentley Donovan

30w

My aunt had a massive summer home in Jamestown RI in the 60s 70s 80s and we could still see the damage this storm left in area and Narragansett area. Huge storm surge

Sharon Russell

3y↑8

I was in Hurricane Hazel - scary as hell, many deaths and so much damage

Yvonne Grassi

Me too. I was in Philly at the time and had my teacher over for dinner.!! It was bad but we didn’t have too much damage. It sure was windy and a lot of rain. My poor mother had to drive my teacher home in that mess. Every time I hear the name Hazel I think of that storm.!! I’m 77 now tho.

writerconsidered

3y↑2

I had a great uncle or cousin or whatever he was, he was a former merchant marine. He looked up at the sky and knew it was coming. Our family was inland so no water worries not far from Blue Hills observatory actually. But they boarded up for the wind.
We are over due again and with warmer waters makes it more likely. We haven't had a real one since the early 90s.

Ronald Zincone

2y↑2

A great documentary for sure. Not a matter of "IF" but a matter of "WHEN".

Evelyn Miranda

3y↑5

My mom was 9 years old she 92 .In Puerto Rico so many hurricane has hit. Puerto Rico and many have died mother nature .Is boss 🙏 R.I.P. all those that died.

Deb Jacobs

2y↑3

My mother lived at 41 Center St, New Haven, Connecticut then. She was 13 then. She told me about knowing that the eye passed over New Haven because the north-south streets had full-grown trees blown down and interlaced from each side across the street, blocking it completely. Her father was a stationer in town, supplying Yale furniture for dorms among many other things.

Robert

27w↑1

Just to let people know, Fenwick is a borough in the town of Old Saybrook ,Ct . I grew up there on South Cove and my family goes back to its founding nearly 400 yrs. My father was born just 3 months before the hurricane of 1938 in Old Saybrook.

Nicholas Barretto

6y↑10

This is a heartbreaking situation people getting washed away by the 10-15 foot storm surge of this category 3 giant in New England what a historical significance.😔👍🌪

Mrs. Charlie Brown

4y↑3

MY home and family have just survived The direct path of two back to back hurricanes one month apart, Hurricane Laura and Hurricane Delta. All we lost was four chickens and a few trees. We had minimum damage to out home. We didn't have power for three weeks, the power was on for a week and a half when we had to evac for the second hurricane. Again the power was out for no more than 3 days. We didn't see a difference in the landscape upon our return. Laura was a cat 4 approaching cat 5 and Delta was a weak cat 3. Now a third Hurricane is in the gulf Hurricane Zeta, which is supposed to make land fall around New Orleans later in the week. Who ever it is that pissed off mother nature I think you owe her an apology.

kingcalafia

6y↑21

It would've been interesting to see the satellite/dopplar radar for this storm had the technology existed.

Moonlight Lady

5y↑7

Yes, I noticed the problem also. I was like "wait a minute" a while ago Hepburn was escaping the house so how come now she's swimming in the ocean BEFORE it hits...confusing, and also unclear at to the actual events in which they escaped the horror of the hurricane.

Abel Philosophy

5y↑1

Moonlight Lady true . It’s chronologically wrong

Charlene Auger

New Bedford was never
mentioned. They had to
build a huge sea wall after
this hurricane. A lot left
out !!!

Jeff Smith

3y↑3

There is a documentary produced in R.I. by PBS called, "The Wake of 38", all about this hurricane and the impact it had on New England, really excellent...

Ryan

6y↑17

My grandmother was living in the North End of Boston as young girl during this storm.

SodOff Baldrick

8y↑15

Thanks for this. My mother was 12 years old, and living in Providence at the time.

Nicholas Barretto

6y↑2

Ruth Presti Was she okay?

Karen Dixon

6y↑3

My mother was 11 and a bit inland from New London.. they were being let out of school when this all hit.. I'll come back and relate the story later.

ScorpioBornIn69

2y↑5

Back then, no satellites and weather radars. That made it very difficult to project, spot and forecast of where they were at and their intensity.

Who Cares

2y↑1

WOW! WHAT A DOCUMENTARY! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!

Waldemar Rodríguez Denis

Id never heard about this storm I watch the whole thing . what a great documentary

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