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Originally Posted by Top-Water
Kids playing in the street the day after the hurricane of 1938 (Meredith)
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This was an interesting photograph from the Hurricane of 1938 (imagine 82 years ago).
I remember growing up that my mother used to tell me that a lot of the properties around the lakes did not have electricity until after the hurricane went tearing thru the area (and flattening lots of woods)
It opened wooded lands via destruction, provided plenty of wood for telephone poles, and made it much easier to provide electric and phone service to once isolated areas.
I think the hurricane of 1954 may have been the last really bad hurricane in the area.