New Jersey 101.5 » Great NJ Storms http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Sun, 19 May 2013 05:19:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 NJ History: The Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944 Battered NJ on Sept. 14 http://nj1015.com/nj-history-the-great-atlantic-hurricane-of-1944-battered-nj-on-sept-14/ http://nj1015.com/nj-history-the-great-atlantic-hurricane-of-1944-battered-nj-on-sept-14/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:03:35 +0000 Leanne Vuksanic http://nj1015.com/?p=166117 On September 14 in 1944, an unnamed hurricane dubbed "The Great Atlantic Hurricane" battered 900 miles of the East Coast. The hurricane's total death toll was 390, with most of them being marine casualties due to ship wreckage and sinkings. On land, the death toll was 46 people, with 338 people injured and thousands of buildings destroyed. 

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]]> http://nj1015.com/nj-history-the-great-atlantic-hurricane-of-1944-battered-nj-on-sept-14/feed/ 0 Harvey Cedars after the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944 (Photo Credit: NJ State Archives via the Department of Transportation Collection)