Re: Hurricane's
Posted by Fran Kent on April 24, 2010, 5:37 pm, in reply to "
Hurricane's"
I don't know that it was a named hurricane, but I remember running into some weather off Cape Henry, on the east coast, that was violent enough to be called all sorts of names. It was either late 1943 or early '44, and the tanker I was on was en route from Venezuela or Aruba or some place down there to, as I remember it, Marcus Hook, Pa. The sea was breaking over the bridge and the destroyer that was escorting us virtually disappeared every time its bow came sharply up, then down. I had never seen anything like it, nor did I afterward, and it instilled in me a profound respect for the power of Nature.
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