Quote: How about the hurricane of 1938 that devastated Providence RI and the SE Coast of Massachusetts? Wasn't it a small storm that explode in the vicinity of delmarva or further north?
No, it was a large storm that had been tracked for weeks and according to ship reports and estimates at the time, it was a category 5 heading towards Miami and then when it started turning north at the Bahamas.
-------------------- Andrew 1992, Irene 1999, Katrina 2005, Wilma 2005