I remember Carol. The eye passed directly over our suburban Boston 
house. We had power longer than most, because the lines were buried. 
About the only thing I remember (other than my Mom playing scrabble 
with a neighbor) was the TV tower at WBZ and the steeple of the Old 
North Church both blowing over.

John Ross

At  9/28/2008 09:09 PM, David L wrote:
>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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