Old Hurricane,Tornado,and Blizzard Newsreel Archive Goes Online

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It looks like all this old newsreel footage was just posted online.

Follow the links for the whole selection of You Tube videos.

I'll start it off with some footage of the 1938 Hurricane.

http://www.youtube.c.../24/M9Rnlnm_AQQ

[HurricaneJosh]

Wow-- that's great.

Good find. I love these old newsreels-- how dramatic they get with the music and the announcer's script.

Also interesting is the announcer's odd pronunciation of the word "hurricane": he calls it a "hurrycane"-- a "tropical hurrycane". You get the impression the word wasn't widely used then-- that there was something slightly exotic about it, perhaps. I notice that really old MWR issues-- like from early in the last century-- sometimes refer to hurricanes-- even very severe ones-- as "tropical disturbances"-- which is course funny given how the term has an entirely different meaning now.

[HurricaneJosh]

Here's some really good 1938 footage. The wind looks pretty ferocious for a Yankee cyclone:

[Ed Lizard]

Here's some really good 1938 footage. The wind looks pretty ferocious for a Yankee cyclone:

The stuff of weenies dreams...

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Here's some really good 1938 footage. The wind looks pretty ferocious for a Yankee cyclone:

Thanks Josh,

This is the first time that I am seeing that footage.

I would be right up on the boardwalk like the people later on in the clip.

[donsutherland1]

Great find, Josh.