Hilary Stout
Hurricane Gloria swept past the Vineyard Friday, veering west and north and carrying less force than predicted, but nonetheless left splintered trees and toppled power lines in her wake.
Hurricanes and Storms
George W. Adams
High winds, high tides, and heavy rains battered the Island last night as hurricane Belle swept destruction across New England.  
Hurricanes and Storms
Vineyard Gazette
Tropical storm Carrie, packing winds , of nearly 70 Moles an hour, overran the Vineyard Sunday, drenching the Labor Day holiday spirit, flooding streets, and cellars, scattering tree limbs and leaves in her path, and generally ruining the last happy weekend of the 1972 summer season.
Hurricanes and Storms
Vineyard Gazette
Vineyarders awoke this morning thoroughly bored with a hurricane called Esther.  
Hurricanes and Storms
Vineyard Gazette
Donna, the “freak” hurricane, swept the Vineyard on Monday, bringing winds of varying velocity, some hard rain-squalls, and spreading miner disaster.
Hurricanes and Storms
Vineyard Gazette
It happened again to the Vineyard. New England’s second tropical hurricane, with the code name Edna, struck the Island with its full force on Saturday, inflicted some further damage although not nearly so great as the first storm of the season, and left much restoration work to be begun all over again.
Hurricanes and Storms
Hurricane Edna
Vineyard Gazette
Earnest G. Friez Jr., manager, said that he thought that the Harbor View Hotel had weathered the Tuesday weather in comparatively good shape.
History of the Harbor View
Harbor View Hotel
Hurricane Edna
Hurricanes and Storms
Vineyard Gazette
The Vineyard’s third hurricane roared over the Island Tuesday, reached the high mark of a flood sea in some places exceeding that of 1938, and left a scene of destruction as the wind abated and the seas fell. The high of the tidal flood came about noon. All the serious damage was inflicted between mid-morning and a little past noon.
Hurricanes and Storms
Vineyard Gazette
The back road between Edgartown and Vineyard Haven seemed to have weathered the storm pretty well, bordered by sturdy scrub oak.
Hurricanes and Storms
Vineyard Gazette
The Kelley House garden in Edgartown resumes a portion of its former beauty as it is cleared of the wreckage of the hurricane, and the setting has changed through the addition of two annex buildi
Kelley House
Hurricane of 1944
Hurricanes and Storms
Vineyard Gazette
A great many trees were knocked down by the wind at the former Sullivan Jones place, Edgartown. The road leading into the estate, now owned by William B.
Hurricane of 1944
Hurricanes and Storms
Katama Airfield
Edgartown harbor
Vineyard Gazette
The Vineyard Sound lightship was lost with all hands the night  of the hurricane.
Hurricanes and Storms
Shipwrecks and groundings

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