This Makes Twice -- A Roslindale family salvages a few bits from their summer home in Crescent Beach, Mattapoisett. Left to right: Fred C. Wiedeman, Jr., his wife, his father, and his son, Fred 3d. They went through the same thing at the same spot after the 1938 hurricane.

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Flood Waters inundate Hull streets and maroon high school at left. The town canceled classes in all its schools today because of the number of flooded roads through which school buses could not navigate.

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This Makes Twice -- A Roslindale family salvages a few bits from their summer home in Crescent Beach, Mattapoisett. Left to right: Fred C. Wiedeman, Jr., his wife, his father, and his son, Fred 3d. They went through the same thing at the same spot after the 1938 hurricane.

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