Hurricane Of 1938 Research Paper

The Hurricane of 1938 was a very powerful storm. There were many deaths and a lot of destruction.There were some conditions that made the storm bad like conditions, human error and large waves. The way the Hurricane hit the Eastern U.S was a surprise to all.
The storm started somewhere off the coast of Africa as a tropical storm. It started small but grew as it moved across the West Atlantic Ocean at 20 mph. Soon the winds reaches 74 mph.The tropical storm had become a hurricane. The storm kept growing as it moved towards longisland. Soon the storm was 500 miles wide and had winds of more than 155 mph. The storm went from a category 3 to a category 5 hurricane.
Researchers thought the storm was going back out to sea and would die out so they told everyone not to worry. But they were wrong. The storm came back as a category 3 hurricane. The researchers didn't have time to tell people that there was a big storm among them. No one had time to flee.
The tides were at peek and there was also a full moon during the storm. At 120 mph the storm hit NYC . New London was under 8ft of water.
At 5:00pm the hurricane started to slow down. At midnight it started to move towards canada and died. There were 682 people killed. There was 20,000 houses destroyed and 75,000 damaged . Only 5% of the population had insurance to cover the damage. So many people were robbed of family members and their lives. After the storm people were desperate and the robbed the remaining stores and homes. The Hurricane of 1938 was the most powerful ,destructive, and deadliest storms in American