Comments on: 1938 hurricane damage, Southampton, NY and nearby

By: g422

g422 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:01 +0000

it’s in the …
it’s in the hamptons….must be the bridge at westhampton….I live on captree island and thats not captree in the video…more then likely its ll west hampton beach…they took the brunt of the hurricane of 38

By: Rach84

Rach84 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:01 +0000

I also forgot to …
I also forgot to mention one thing. He’s also a Science teacher, so he knows all about the past hurricanes. He said that the hurricane wasn’t nearly as bad in CT as it was on LI. he said it broke up a bit once it hit CT, so this video is most likely all from LI.

By: lipwak

lipwak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:01 +0000

Interesting. Thanks!
Interesting. Thanks!

By: lipwak

lipwak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:01 +0000

Thanks for the help …
Thanks for the help! I’m hoping more of it can be identified as well.

By: Rach84

Rach84 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:01 +0000

That information I …
That information I just said came from my boyfriend, who lives so close that he claims he can spit and hit the bridge lol. He thinks it’s the drawbridge before the actual Rober Moses bridge; not the actual RM bridge. I think he’s right.

But it’s nonetheless very interesting. Cool to see footage from then and see the damage from the hurricane. Thanks for showing us.

By: lipwak

lipwak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:01 +0000

No. I live near …
No. I live near enough. It all looks vaguely familiar. Not that I would recognize it from pictures but I think I may have been over the Robert Moses bridge. (Maybe that steel part was added later… I do see that a second bridge has been added relatively recently…)

By: Rach84

Rach84 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:01 +0000

It might be a …
It might be a drawbridge to Captree State Park, right before the Robert Moses bridge.

Are you from around Long Island?

By: lipwak

lipwak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:01 +0000

Great. Where is …
Great. Where is that bridge on LI, Fire Island? It does look like a WPA era bridge but the only pic I have found of the RM bridge has big steel structure which I don’t see in this movie.

By: Rach84

Rach84 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:01 +0000

I’m from Long …
I’m from Long Island, and :26 into the video almost looks like the Robert Moses bridge. I’ve been to CT many times, and I don’t remember any sort of bridge looking like that.

By: lipwak

lipwak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:01 +0000

Could very well be. …
Could very well be. Thanks!