Excerpt from The Hurricane and Flood of September, 1938 It was in the very nature of the disaster that one problem should pyramid upon another. The wind which sent thousands of trees crashing through tele phone lines toppled thousands more across lines which distributed electric power. At the same time, as power was lost, the failing of telephone cir cuits created an excessive drain on precious reserves of current in telephone central office batteries. That was one vicious circle, but not the only one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.