Carol sounds like the culprit, since it hit Connecticut and the record company 
was there. I don't remember Carol..we heard about Edna a lot that September (we 
were moving from downtown Toronto the suburbs of North York on September 15, 
1954) and we sure heard about Hazel.

dl

Richard L. Hess wrote:
> At 11:33 PM 2008-09-28, David Lennick wrote:
>> I've heard of records being destroyed in shipping, in a fire at the 
>> pressing plant, in an accident during processing, but I've never heard 
>> of a record being unissued because the entire stock was destroyed 
>> during a hurricane. Edna or Hazel, I wonder?
>> http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Lea/BLdiscography.html
> 
> Hi, David,
> 
> It appears that it could be Carol or Edna
> http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/hurricane/hurricaneCarol.shtml
> http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/hurricane/hurricaneEdna.shtml
> Hurricane Hazel was more of a Toronto thing...
> Here is a summary of all of them (scroll down for Hazel)
> http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml#carol
> 
> Wow! 1954 was a really bad year for northern hurricanes. Let's hope Kyle 
> dosent bother our friends in the Maritimes too much!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
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