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Hurricane Hazel Preparation. Workmen are busy here today sandbagging a power company's main generating plant near the Providence River as word was received that the season's eighth hurricane might strike the area tomorrow.
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Hurricane Hazel Preparation. Workmen are busy here today sandbagging a power company's main generating plant near the Providence River as word was received that the season's eighth hurricane might strike the area tomorrow.

Associated Press · [ca. October 1954]

CC0 — Public Domain
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[Information from item housing] Weather: Hurricane: Hazel, Oct. 1954: Wire Photos

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