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The Great Ash Wednesday Storm
- "One of the worst, and still a benchmark against which other storms are measured, was "the great Ash Wednesday storm," a giant northeaster that raged along one thousand miles of the Atlantic coast from March 5 to 8, 1962. The storm struck at the perigean spring tide, when the tides rise highest, and howled through five high tide cycles... with waves as much as thirty feet high." -excerpt from the book, Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches, by Cornelia Dean, Columbia University Press, 1999, pg. 145
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