so far...Bible Project videos Heaven and Earth, Agape, Atonement, and so many more
"Choice that you make to seek the well-being of people other than yourself" ~ Agape video
"Decades later the most vivid memories remain those of color and sound." p. 96 Sudden Sea
Each community stood alone, isolated against the onslaught." p. 95 Sudden Sea R.A. Scotti
"Geography, topography, the lay of the land, became critical factors." p. 95 Sudden Sea R.A. Scotti
"Houses went to sea, boast came ashore, and ordinary objects were recast." p. 95
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance, and his incomparably great power for us who believe." ~ Ephesians 1:18-19
Jack and Lillian
Kinney
"Lillian, Jack, and the clammers were the only four to survive the storm on Napatree." p. 198
Moore family found a haystack sheltered by a stone wall, and there in the field beneath a sky full of stars they spent the night." p. 192 Sudden Sea R.A. Scotti
Nature flaunting its supremacy..." p. 95
"Ocean changed to black marble." p. 152
"Patchogue, Long Island striking with such force that it set off seismograph in Alaska." p. 98
"...Quotient of drama to the glorious days." Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
"Rooftops were Rafts..." p.95 Read this book in a matter of a few short days:
"Summer of '38 had been miserable""Town by town, the Northeast darkened and was silenced." p.95
"Unimaginably violent, churning water." p. 95 chapter 8 "Upside Down, Inside Out"
"...Vaulting sea walls..." p. 83
"Women hiked their skirts up over their knees and men stripped to their undershirts while children slept on screened-porches, hair plastered against flushed cheeks." p. 83-4
"eXtreme hurricane is a sudden eXplosion of wind and water." It is... nature of flaunting its supremacy and cutting us down to size, reducing our finest creations to rubble, knocking us back centuries." p. 95
"Yawning chasms, in a hopeless jumble of power lines, signal towers, houses, boats, and thousands of tons of debris." p. 211
"Zinnias, dahlias, and golden rod are in bloom, the last of the berries are bright on the bush, and overhead the first trace of autumn colors the trees." p. 83
I read this book a few years ago. Very well done. My parents recalled stories from the day. I highly recommend this book, especially those in New England. Thanks for posting this.
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