Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Hurricane Hilda was expected to slam into the Louisiana coast with 120-mile-an-hour winds before noon 10/3 and head across the swampland to brush New Orleans. The 400-mile-wide storm focused its core on an 80-mile stretch of coast southwest of New Orleans between Morgan City and Grand Isle. Newsmap indicates Hilda’s course.
Hurricane Hilda was expected to slam into the Louisiana coast with 120-mile-an-hour winds before noon 10/3 and head across the swampland to brush New Orleans. The 400-mile-wide storm focused its core on an 80-mile stretch of coast southwest of New Orleans between Morgan City and Grand Isle. Newsmap indicates Hilda’s course.
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Hurricane Hilda was expected to slam into the Louisiana coast with 120-mile-an-hour winds before noon 10/3 and head across the swampland to brush New Orleans. The 400-mile-wide storm focused its core on an 80-mile stretch of coast southwest of New Orleans between Morgan City and Grand Isle. Newsmap indicates Hilda’s course.

United Press International · [ca. October 1964]

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