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Great Storms of the Chesapeake (Disaster)

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Even before John Smith’s crew weathered its first squall, the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries had been ravaged by each and every form of storm conceivable. A 1769 hurricane altered the course of history, demolishing the shipping channels of Charlestown and making Baltimore the dominant port. A once-in-five-hundred-years storm, Tropical Storm Agnes, left more than seventy folks dead and devastated the ecology of the bay. Before the blizzards of 2009 and 2010, the snowfall record was once held by the combo of the Great Eastern Blizzard of 1899, which blew the water out of the bay, and the Great White Hurricane, which stranded the oyster fleet of Baltimore in feet of ice. Sign up for writer David Healey as he assists in keeping an eye to the red horizon and chronicles essentially the most remarkable storms to churn the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.

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