PBS American Experience - The Hurricane of '38 (1993)HDTV | 720x544 | .MKV/AVC @ 1368 Kbps | 52 min 41 s | 601 MiB
Audio: English EAC3 224 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary In September of 1938, a great storm rose up on the coast of West Africa and began making its way across the Atlantic Ocean. The National Weather Bureau learned about it from merchant ships at sea and predicted it would blow itself out at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, as such storms usually did. The coastal forecast from New York to Maine called for "fresh southerly winds" with some cooler, rainy weather, but the storm didn't blow itself out at Cape Hatteras as predicted. It suddenly began an unexpected sprint north along the coast, surprising even the Coast Guard. No one had ever seen a storm like this; radar had not yet been invented.