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Very interesting article. I love reading local history like that where I've lived through some of it, and been to practically all the towns mentioned. That hurricane, also known as the Long Island Express, was no joke. I remember my grandmother talking about it. It completely destroyed 1st beach in Newport RI (my hometown). There used to be a boardwalk, a Rollercoaster, and a Carousel too. They claim that there's still pieces of it in the reservoir across the street from it. With reports of carousel horses sticking up out of the water during droughts.
There was a very interesting special on PBS about that. It was made here locally. I remember seeing it on the RI PBS station decades ago. It had pictures of downtown Providence being flooded, and interviews with people that lived through it told through actors though IIRC. If you ever get a chance. Check it out. I've no idea how to find it though.
Carol in 56' I think it was is another local legend around here. I remember my father telling me that he was working painting a house that day down the hill from where he grew up right off lower Thames St. He went home early as the wind picked up. And he said it got so bad on the way home that he could lean into the wind at an extreme angle, and it would hold him up. He said it was much more severe then Gloria, or Bob. Both of which I remember well. I'm not sure if that was true, or not. But that's what he said.