The Hurricane of '38
Narrator: On September 4, 1938, a French meteorologist in the Sahara noted winds moving west toward the African coast and the Atlantic Ocean.
旁白：1938 年 9 月 4 日，一位在撒哈拉沙漠的法国气象学家注意到风向西向非洲海岸和大西洋移动。
Two weeks later, these winds -- now at hurricane force -- were seen again northeast of Puerto Rico.
两周后，波多黎各东北部再次出现飓风强度的强风。
The Jacksonville office of the U.S. Weather Bureau broadcast hurricane warnings for southern Florida on the 19th of September, but by the next morning the hurricane had turned.
美国气象局杰克逊维尔办公室于 9 月 19 日向佛罗里达州南部发布飓风警报，但到第二天早上，飓风发生转变。
Florida was spared.
佛罗里达幸免于难。
The storm was now headed north.
风暴现在正向北移动。
Milton Miller: I was born to be a fisherman.
米尔顿·米勒：我生来就是一名渔夫。
I was born right on the beach in back of a sand dune there not over 300 or 400 feet from the ocean.
我出生在沙丘后面的海滩上，距离海洋不超过 300 或 400 英尺。
And you know, I used to hang around and be down there when I was a little boy just to get -- well, we used to have to open bait and to bait these codfish lines.
你知道，当我还是个小男孩的时候，我经常在那里闲逛，只是为了得到——嗯，我们过去常常不得不打开诱饵并引诱这些鳕鱼线。
I'd probably make 25 cents a day, but 25 cents them days were a lot of money and the family needed it.
我可能每天能赚 25 美分，但每天 25 美分已经是很多钱了，而且家庭需要它。
Narrator: There was nothing unusual in the forecast, Wednesday September 21st -- fresh winds from the south, overcast, a chance of rain.
旁白：9 月 21 日星期三，天气预报没有什么异常——南风吹来，阴天，可能会下雨。
Among the fisherman, the talk was of clams -- $2.50 a bushel, $5 for a hard day's work; not bad wages for the depression.
渔民们谈论的话题是蛤蜊——每蒲式耳 2.5 美元，一天辛苦劳作 5 美元；对于经济萧条时期来说工资还不错。
There was no mention of the hurricane, now 60 miles off Virginia and moving north toward Long Island.
没有提及飓风，目前距离弗吉尼亚州 60 英里，正在向北向长岛移动。
Ed Ecker: The morning was kind of a mild day.
艾德·埃克：早上天气温和。
Nobody talked about hurricane.
没有人谈论飓风。
Nobody even talked about a storm, and nobody heard that there was anything coming, not even the fisherman.
甚至没有人谈论暴风雨，也没有人听说有什么事情即将发生，甚至渔夫也没有听说过。
Milton Miller: There's no such thing as weather reports, and you know, they'd stand around and say, "Well, Cap, what do you think the weather's going to be?" And he'd look around, maybe light up his pipe, looking around, sniffing around.
米尔顿·米勒：没有天气预报这样的东西，你知道，他们会站着说：“好吧，队长，你认为天气会怎样？”他会环顾四周，也许会点燃烟斗，环顾四周，四处嗅嗅。
"Well, you know, we might make it today.
“好吧，你知道，我们今天可能会成功。
We'd better hurry.
我们最好快点。
Maybe we'll only get a half a day in, but we better be back by noon." I think it was more instinct than anything else.
也许我们只能呆半天，但我们最好在中午之前回来。”我认为这比其他任何事情都更本能。
Narrator: The village of Montauk projected out into the Atlantic at the eastern tip of Long Island.
旁白：蒙托克村位于长岛东端，伸入大西洋。
For its fisherman, the weather was an unending struggle.
对于渔民来说，天气是一场无休止的斗争。
The summer months meant butterfish and porgies, also the chance of sudden squalls that could swamp their small boats and tear their traps.
夏季意味着鲳鱼和鳕鱼，也可能会突然出现暴风雨，淹没它们的小船并撕裂它们的陷阱。
Come winter, the fisherman would row out before dawn, their cotton coats painted with fish oil to seal out the freezing wind.
到了冬天，渔民们会在黎明前划船出海，棉衣上涂上鱼油以抵御寒风。
But this was September.
但这是九月。
Winds from the northwest eased the surf and gave the best fishing of the year.
西北风缓和了海浪，带来了一年中最好的钓鱼机会。
Milton Miller: During the summer, I fished the bay.
米尔顿·米勒：夏天，我在海湾钓鱼。
By September, we'd go on the ocean and start hauling for striped bass.
到了九月，我们就会出海开始捕捞条纹鲈鱼。
And when I say hauling, I mean that I -- we used a boat with a net, and this is the oldest type of fishing in history, to haul seine.
当我说拖运时，我的意思是我们用一艘带网的船，这是历史上最古老的捕鱼方式，拖拉围网。
Narrator: Each day, the men would cart their fish to the Promised Land dock, where it was loaded onto the train for New York's Fulton Street market.
旁白：每天，这些人都会把鱼运到应许之地码头，然后装上开往纽约富尔顿街市场的火车。
Children would give the engineer a codfish.
孩子们会给工程师一条鳕鱼。
In return, he'd lurch the train so that handfuls of precious coal would spill onto the tracks.
作为回报，他会让火车倾斜，这样一把珍贵的煤炭就会洒到铁轨上。
That year, 1938, the WPA finally brought sewers to the eastern end of the island.
那一年，即 1938 年，水务局终于将下水道带到了岛的东端。
It was also the year dial phones came to Montauk.
同年，蒙托克也出现了拨号电话。
The local paper complained of "curious buzzes and clicks." But the fisherman missed out on most of these modern miracles.
当地报纸抱怨说有“奇怪的嗡嗡声和咔哒声”。但这位渔夫错过了大部分现代奇迹。
They lived on the beach, in houses made from fishboxes and tarpaper, insulated with seaweed.
他们住在海滩上，住在用鱼箱和防水纸建造的房子里，并用海藻绝缘。
Milton Miller: The night before the hurricane -- I'd been fishing all that night and that next day, yeah, I had sort of a sense.
米尔顿·米勒：飓风发生前一天晚上——我整晚都在钓鱼，第二天，是的，我有一种感觉。
I knew by the weather it was getting bad.
从天气来看我就知道天气会变坏。
I mean, I knew a storm was coming over on the ocean side.
我的意思是，我知道一场风暴即将从大洋一侧袭来。
We could see the sky is getting darker, the wind is breezing up stronger, so by the time I get to Promised Land, I see Captain Burt there, and he says, "Well, Milt," he says, "this barometer's falling so fast." He says, "We're going to get a blow somewheres." Plus they figure this was going to be a three-day northeaster.
我们可以看到天空越来越暗，风越来越大，所以当我到达应许之地时，我看到伯特船长在那里，他说，“好吧，米尔特，”他说，“气压计下降得太快了。”他说：“我们会在某个地方受到打击。”另外，他们认为这将是一场为期三天的东北风。
Ed Ecker: You know, we had northeasters and that type of thing.
艾德·埃克：你知道，我们有东北风之类的东西。
Never heard the word "hurricane." Never heard the word "hurricane" while I was running around, never heard the word "hurricane" in school.
从来没有听说过“飓风”这个词。我到处跑的时候从来没有听过“飓风”这个词，在学校里也没有听过“飓风”这个词。
And I think I was in the third grade at that time, in 1938.
我想当时我正在上三年级，那是 1938 年。
The word "hurricane" was foreign to us.
“飓风”这个词对我们来说很陌生。
Patricia Shuttleworth: Every year, in June, we would pick up and pack the car and set off for Westhampton Beach from Newark, New Jersey, where we lived.
Patricia Shuttleworth：每年六月，我们都会提车并收拾行李，从我们居住的新泽西州纽瓦克出发前往西汉普顿海滩。
It was always a cook and what we called a chambermaid-waitress.
总是由厨师和我们所说的女服务员担任。
Over the weekend, we would go to the beach.
周末，我们会去海滩。
At each side of the beach clubs were long ropes that went out to barrels, which floated out there, which showed you the limit of where you could swim.
海滩俱乐部的每一侧都有长长的绳子，这些绳子通向桶，桶漂浮在那里，这向你展示了你可以游泳的极限。
A lot of people would go and hang onto these ropes and as the waves broke over them, they would dip or bathe.
很多人会去抓住这些绳子，当海浪冲过他们时，他们会浸入水中或沐浴。
Stuart Bartle: The ocean was really a big part of our life.
Stuart Bartle：海洋确实是我们生活的重要组成部分。
We spent a tremendous amount of time in the ocean, going through the waves.
我们在海洋中度过了大量的时间，在海浪中穿行。
The most fun we ever had was when it got rough.
我们经历过的最有趣的事情就是当事情变得艰难的时候。
It was really important that we master the water.
掌握水对我们来说非常重要。
It was important to my stepfather, and it became very important to me.
这对我的继父来说很重要，对我来说也变得非常重要。
It was sort of becoming man.
这有点像男人了。
I guess I was -- I mean, I was a kid then, of course, and it was one of the things that made me a little better than the other kids, 'cause I couldn't run as fast as they could.
我想我是——我的意思是，当然，我当时还是个孩子，这是让我比其他孩子好一点的原因之一，因为我跑得不像他们那么快。
You go with the flow, so to speak.
可以这么说，你随波逐流。
You don't ever swim against the current.
你永远不会逆流而行。
And the biggest thing you keep in the back of your mind is you're not going to be carried out to sea, you're going to be washed in.
你心里最重要的事情是你不会被带到海里，你会被冲进去。
I grew up sort of foolishly fearless, I think, about the water.
我想，在我的成长过程中，我对水有点愚蠢地无所畏惧。
Narrator: When the residents of the Hamptons woke up to their newspapers that September 21st, the headlines were of Hitler and his threats against Czechoslovakia.
旁白：9 月 21 日，当汉普顿的居民醒来看到报纸时，头条新闻是希特勒及其对捷克斯洛伐克的威胁。
Britain and France were caving in to Hitler's demands.
英国和法国屈服于希特勒的要求。
Buried at the bottom of page 27, The New York Times ran a story about the relieved residents of South Florida.
《纽约时报》在第 27 页的底部刊登了一篇关于南佛罗里达州居民如释重负的报道。
The paper praised the, quote, "admirably organized Weather Service" that had enabled New York and the rest of the world to have been so well informed.
该报称赞“气象局组织得令人钦佩”，正是它使纽约和世界其他地方能够如此充分地了解情况。
Patricia Shuttleworth: That morning was dark and gray.
帕特里夏·沙特尔沃思：那天早晨天色漆黑，灰暗。
It was raining.
正在下雨。
People on the beach said later that they had been planning, for instance, to do some outdoor things that day.
海滩上的人们后来说，他们本来计划那天做一些户外活动。
They decided to stay home and watch the surf.
他们决定呆在家里看冲浪。
That was the reason they had bought and built on the beach, so that they could watch the ocean, and this was going to be a very exciting, rough day on the ocean.
这就是他们在海滩上购买和建造的原因，这样他们就可以观看大海，这将是海上非常令人兴奋和艰难的一天。
So this is what people were doing.
这就是人们正在做的事情。
Narrator: Servants were closing up the estates.
旁白：仆人们正在关闭庄园。
Beds were stripped and covered with newspapers, summer clothes packed away in trunks.
床上被扒光了，上面铺满了报纸，夏天的衣服装在箱子里。
By mid-morning, there was already a furious wind.
到了中午，已经刮起了狂风。
Near the beachfront, windowpanes blurred from the salt spray and sand scraped against the skin.
在海滨附近，窗玻璃因盐雾和沙子刮擦皮肤而变得模糊。
Stuart Bartle: Around noon or maybe before noon, I went up to the dunes to look at the water, and I saw it was really fabulous.
斯图尔特·巴特尔（Stuart Bartle）：中午左右或可能在中午之前，我走到沙丘上看水，我发现它真的很棒。
It was absolutely beautiful.
真是太美了。
As far as the eye could see, you could see these waves, I mean, white water going out as far as the eye could see.
在眼睛所能看到的范围内，你可以看到这些波浪，我的意思是，白色的水一直流到眼睛所能看到的地方。
It was wonderful.
太棒了。
It was a little scary, but you know, if you're a kid you can't imagine that anything bad is ever going to happen.
这有点吓人，但你知道，如果你是个孩子，你无法想象会发生什么糟糕的事情。
Anne Moore: When you face something like that -- an impossible situation -- there is no way out.
安妮摩尔：当你面对这样的事情时——一种不可能的情况——没有出路。
It's just not possible that you're going to survive this, and yet you do.
你不可能幸存下来，但你却做到了。
You know, what will be will be.
你知道，将会发生什么。
When your time comes, it comes and nothing can happen to you before it's time.
当你的时间到了，它就来了，在时间到来之前，什么也不会发生在你身上。
Narrator: Anne and Cathy Moore lived with their family in Napatree Point, a community of 150 built on a sandbar at the southern tip of Rhode Island.
旁白：安妮·摩尔 (Anne Moore) 和凯茜·摩尔 (Cathy Moore) 与家人住在纳帕特里角 (Napatree Point)，这是一个建在罗德岛南端沙洲上的社区，共有 150 人。
A single narrow road ran from the mainland through Napatree Point down to the ruins of the old fort where children liked to play.
一条狭窄的道路从大陆穿过纳帕特里角，一直延伸到孩子们喜欢玩耍的古堡废墟。
Catherine Moore: We were in the bay, playing.
凯瑟琳·摩尔：我们在海湾里玩耍。
We were allowed to go to the ocean side when someone went with us -- that was a big thrill -- and we played games in the water, of course.
当有人和我们一起去时，我们被允许去海边——这真是太令人兴奋了——当然，我们还在水里玩游戏。
Anne Moore: You really want to get a sense of the swimsuit, woolen swimsuits which itched and scratched and -- and we were constantly chafed right through here on both -- it really hurt.
安妮·摩尔：你真的很想了解一下泳衣的感觉，羊毛泳衣会让人发痒、抓伤，而且我们一直在这两件衣服上被擦伤，真的很疼。
I mean, it just did.
我的意思是，它就这样发生了。
Catherine Moore: As I recall, my mother -- they did laundry that morning because they hadn't been able to for the previous dull days.
凯瑟琳·摩尔：我记得，我的母亲——那天早上他们洗衣服，因为之前无聊的日子他们没能洗衣服。
And it was nice, spanking wind and it would dry them, though I believe they did have to use clothespins and double-clip the laundry.
风很好，刮得厉害，会把他们吹干的，尽管我相信他们确实必须使用衣夹并用双夹子夹住衣服。
I mean, it was that much wind.
我的意思是，风太大了。
Narrator: The Rhode Island beachfront stood dangerously exposed.
旁白：罗德岛州的海滨暴露在危险之中。
Houses were built on shifting sand, too close to the sea.
房屋建在流沙上，距离大海太近。
Bridges were too flimsy, roads too low.
桥梁太脆弱，道路太低。
Still, on mid-morning on the 21st, evacuation would have been possible -- if the Weather Bureau had put out the word.
尽管如此，如果气象局发布消息，21 日上午，疏散还是可能的。
Anne Moore: Listening to news on the radio was not a part of our day as children, but of course, my father was always listening to the news, and we would pick up things, you know, from conversation.
安妮·摩尔：小时候，听广播新闻并不是我们生活的一部分，但当然，我父亲总是听新闻，我们会从谈话中了解一些事情。
But as for any sort of storm warning, there wasn't any.
但至于任何形式的风暴警报，都没有。
There was none.
没有。
Narrator: For days, this hurricane had been carefully tracked by the Weather Bureau in Washington, but with no sense of alarm.
旁白：几天来，华盛顿气象局一直在仔细追踪这场飓风，但没有任何警报感。
Its weathermen believed that hurricanes never hit New England.
天气预报员相信飓风从未袭击过新英格兰。
This storm, they were sure, would veer safely out to sea.
他们确信这场风暴会安全地转向大海。
At 10 A.M., as the skies darkened, the Bureau issued a standard warning for small boats to stay in port.
上午10点，随着天空变暗，该局发布了标准警告，要求小船留在港口。
By then, the hurricane was off Delaware, just five hours from hitting land.
那时，飓风已经离开特拉华州，距离登陆仅五个小时。
Anne Moore: The sky -- that morning and before hurricanes in general, there's a dead feeling.
安妮·摩尔：天空——那天早上以及飓风来临之前，有一种死气沉沉的感觉。
The sky was an odd color.
天空的颜色很奇怪。
It was almost a yellowish color.
它几乎是淡黄色的。
It almost seems as if everybody in the world has died except you, you know.
似乎世界上除了你之外的每个人都已经死了，你知道。
You don't hear birds.
你听不到鸟叫声。
You don't really hear anything.
你真的什么也没听到。
It's an odd sensation.
这是一种奇怪的感觉。
Narrator: On the morning of the 21st, the residents of Providence poured downtown on the nickel trolley.
旁白：21日早上，普罗维登斯的居民乘坐镍制电车涌入市中心。
There was no notice given to the hurricane.
没有收到关于飓风的通知。
The concern that day, like every other, was about weathering a different storm.
那天的担忧和其他日子一样，是如何经受一场不同的风暴。
Doris Layden: The Depression affected everybody.
多丽丝·莱登：大萧条影响了每个人。
There wasn't one person in the City of Providence that wasn't affected by it.
普罗维登斯市没有一个人不受到影响。
Margaret Deignan: And because you didn't have any money, you could go shopping, but it was only window-shopping.
玛格丽特·戴尼安：因为你没有钱，你可以去购物，但那只是逛街。
You dreamed.
你做梦了。
Narrator: In 1938, the WPA thought a family of four could get along on $25 a week.
旁白：1938 年，WPA 认为一个四口之家每周 25 美元就可以过日子。
In Rhode Island, many people agreed.
在罗德岛州，很多人都同意这一点。
Many didn't have that much.
许多人没有那么多。
For the young, Depression was the only life they knew, and there was only one place to escape and forget: downtown.
对于年轻人来说，抑郁症是他们唯一熟悉的生活，只有一个地方可以逃避和忘记：市中心。
Doris Layden: We forgot our troubles for a few hours, and then we'd go to Loews Theater and that was like going into fantasyland.
Doris Layden：我们在几个小时内忘记了烦恼，然后我们去了洛斯剧院，那就像进入了幻想世界。
From the ordinary life outside of sacrifice, you're coming into opulence.
从牺牲之外的平凡生活中，你正在走向富裕。
And wonderful carpets and the chandeliers and the curtains just transported you to another world.
精美的地毯、吊灯和窗帘将您带到了另一个世界。
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg: Downtown was the center of everything.
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg：市中心是一切的中心。
There was such activity, such life and color downtown.
市中心有这样的活动、这样的生活和色彩。
It was Life with a capital L, and it was beautiful, beautiful at that time.
那是大写L的Life，当时很美好，很美好。
Narrator: Long ago, much of Providence had been marshland, but in the 19th century, industrialists hungry for space had filled the swamps, spread the city all the way to the river's edge.
旁白：很久以前，普罗维登斯的大部分地区都是沼泽地，但在 19 世纪，渴望空间的实业家填满了沼泽，将城市一直延伸到河边。
City Hall, like other Providence landmarks, was built on wet clay, and during high tides water flooded the basements.
市政厅和普罗维登斯的其他地标一样，建在潮湿的粘土上，涨潮时水会淹没地下室。
On September 21st, the rivers were already swollen from four days of rain, and the ground was wet underfoot.
9月21日，连下了四天的雨，河水已经水涨船高，脚下的地面湿漉漉的。
Doris Layden: Well, the day dawned very nicely.
多丽丝·莱登：嗯，这一天的黎明非常美好。
There was sun.
有阳光。
And then about 10 o'clock, it did cloud over.
然后10点左右，天就阴了。
And we went to lunch and the girls at lunch said, "Let's go to a show." And down at the Metropolitan, Spencer Tracy was playing in My Son, My Son .
我们去吃午饭，吃午饭的女孩们说：“我们去看演出吧。”在大都会歌剧院，斯宾塞·屈塞正在演奏《我的儿子，我的儿子》。
And so we decided to all go after work.
所以我们决定下班后都去。
Well, come 2 o'clock, it did become very ominous.
嗯，到了两点钟，情况确实变得非常不祥。
The clouds were just racing by.
云朵刚刚疾驰而过。
They weren't standing still, they were racing.
他们没有静止不动，而是在奔跑。
Narrator: By 2 P.M., barometer readings were falling all along the coast.
旁白：到下午 2 点，沿海地区的气压计读数都在下降。
Winds climbed to 45 miles an hour, but there was still no official warning of the hurricane, now just two hours away, so people held to their plans.
风速升至每小时 45 英里，但距离飓风仅两小时之遥，官方仍没有发出警报，因此人们坚持计划。
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg: We were all gowned.
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg：我们都穿着长袍。
Everybody was decked out -- mother and grandmother and myself, my dad and Joe.
每个人都盛装打扮——母亲、祖母、我自己、父亲和乔。
Everybody, you know, looked wonderful and very excited.
你知道，每个人看起来都很棒而且非常兴奋。
Narrator: Joe Fogel and Loraine Martin had their wedding set for the 21st, downtown at the Narragansett Hotel.
旁白：Joe Fogel 和 Loraine Martin 于 21 日在市中心纳拉甘西特酒店举行了婚礼。
Joe's younger sister, Marilyn, stayed home from school and helped prepare.
乔的妹妹玛丽莲没有上学，留在家里帮忙做准备。
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg: And then the winds were blowing and a lot of tree limbs, I remember, in the back of the house were swaying.
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg：然后风刮起来，我记得房子后面的很多树枝都在摇晃。
And there was some growing concern, but my dad had a very positive attitude and everything was going to be fine and everyone should relax and there would be no problem.
人们越来越担心，但我父亲的态度非常积极，一切都会好起来，每个人都应该放松，不会有任何问题。
Loraine Fogel: I knew that the weather wasn't too good.
Loraine Fogel：我知道天气不太好。
And Miss Dyer from The Providence Journal -- and she was the society editor -- and she called me and she asked me if I was planning to go ahead with my wedding.
还有《普罗维登斯日报》的戴尔小姐——她是协会的编辑——她打电话给我，问我是否打算继续举行婚礼。
And I said, oh yes, I was.
我说，哦，是的，我是。
It was a bad storm, but we're leaving soon.
这是一场猛烈的暴风雨，但我们很快就要离开。
But after we arrived at the Narragansett Hotel, why it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.
但当我们到达纳拉甘西特酒店后，为什么它变得越来越糟。
Narrator: The Weather Bureau could have predicted the hurricane.
旁白：气象局本来可以预测飓风的。
In fact, one forecaster did.
事实上，一位预测员确实这么做了。
More than 24 hours before it hit land, a junior weatherman mapped the storm's exact course.
在风暴登陆前 24 个多小时，一名初级气象员绘制了风暴的准确路径。
His chart was ignored.
他的图表被忽略了。
The warnings continued.
警告仍在继续。
An ocean liner sailed clear through the eye of the hurricane near Cape Hatteras and radioed back one of the lowest most dangerous barometric readings ever, but at the time there wasn't even a senior forecaster on duty.
一艘远洋客轮在哈特拉斯角附近驶过飓风眼，并用无线电传回了有史以来最低、最危险的气压读数之一，但当时甚至没有一名高级预报员值班。
To the end, the bureau chiefs held to the belief that the hurricane would turn out to sea.
直到最后，分局局长都坚信飓风最终会转向大海。
Even in its last advisory after the hurricane was sighted off New Jersey, the Bureau warned only of gale-force winds.
即使在新泽西州附近看到飓风后的最后一次报告中，该局也只警告了大风。
By then, anyway, it was too late.
到那时，无论如何，已经太晚了。
The storm was about to hit land.
风暴即将登陆。
New York City caught the storm's western skirt, with 65-mile-an-hour winds.
纽约市受到风暴西侧边缘的影响，风速达到每小时 65 英里。
The East River flowed three blocks into Manhattan.
东河流经三个街区流入曼哈顿。
Steam pipes under the streets burst from pressure.
街道下的蒸汽管道因压力而爆裂。
The Bronx went to blackout.
布朗克斯区停电了。
Hospitals operated by candlelight.
烛光运作的医院。
But this was the mild edge of the hurricane.
但这是飓风的温和边缘。
In Long Island on the storm's eastern rim, winds slammed into the land at 100 miles per hour.
在风暴东部边缘的长岛，狂风以每小时 100 英里的速度猛烈袭击陆地。
The seismic impact registered as far away as Sitka, Alaska.
地震影响远至阿拉斯加的锡特卡。
Ed Ecker: I was in school.
艾德·埃克：我当时在学校。
My mother sent a fellow named Marshall Prado up to pick us up.
我母亲派了一个叫马歇尔·普拉多的人来接我们。
And I was sitting in the back, the car was swaying and that was the first inkling I had of any kind of problem or wind.
我坐在后面，车子在摇晃，这是我第一次意识到有什么问题或有风。
When we got home, everybody was crowded in the dining room of the restaurant.
当我们回到家时，餐厅的餐厅里挤满了人。
The bar was open.
酒吧开门了。
There were fishermen in there, and everybody was talking about the storm then, because then, by that time, it was really whistling.
那里有渔民，每个人都在谈论风暴，因为那时，到了那个时候，真的是呼啸而过。
And the next thing, I look out the window and the garage that we had the car in -- my aunt had just bought a 1938 woody Ford station wagon -- and the garage just picked up and went out into the bay, just demolished from the wind.
接下来，我向窗外望去，看到我们停放汽车的车库——我姨妈刚刚买了一辆 1938 年的木质福特旅行车——车库就这样被风吹毁了，一直延伸到海湾里。
Stuart Bartle: Just noise, tremendously noisy, and things are flying around, sand is flying around, leaves are flying around.
斯图尔特·巴特尔：只是噪音，非常吵闹，东西飞来飞去，沙子飞来飞去，树叶飞来飞去。
Your hat's flying.
你的帽子飞起来了
You have to hold onto your clothes.
你必须抓住你的衣服。
You had to shout.
你不得不喊叫。
Milton Miller: At first off, there was quite a few guys down there, but they was kind of getting shook up about that storm and first thing you know, they all left.
米尔顿·米勒：一开始，那里有很多人，但他们对那场风暴感到震惊，首先你知道，他们都离开了。
And the only person I can remember was Captain Burt Edwards and myself down there.
我唯一记得的人是伯特·爱德华兹船长和我自己。
Narrator: When the hurricane hit, Milt Miller was at the Promised Land dock.
旁白：飓风来袭时，米尔特·米勒正在应许之地码头。
As wind gusts approached 120 miles an hour, steel shingles flew overhead and boats sprung from their moorings.
当阵风达到每小时 120 英里时，钢瓦从头顶飞过，船只从停泊处跃出。
Milton Miller: And I was really jumping from one boat to the other, getting the lines and throwing to Captain Burt.
米尔顿·米勒：我真的从一艘船跳到另一艘船，拿起绳子，扔给伯特船长。
And Captain Burt, he'd be tying the lines, and then we'd run and get onboard of the big boats and the lines would be parting -- and that means breaking, you know -- and so we were so busy and we didn't even realize that we were in a hurricane or a storm like that.
伯特船长，他会绑绳子，然后我们跑上大船，绳子就会分开——这意味着断裂，你知道——所以我们很忙，我们甚至没有意识到我们正处于飓风或风暴之中。
In fact, we didn't even realize the whole town was being tore apart.
事实上，我们甚至没有意识到整个城镇正在被撕裂。
Ed Ecker: By that time, the fishboxes were airborne, and as we looked out the back, we could see the fishboxes landing in the bay and floating out.
Ed Ecker：那时，鱼箱已经在空中，当我们向后看时，我们可以看到鱼箱降落在海湾中并漂浮出去。
And meantime, the water is coming in, the tide was coming in and by the time we got really concerned, it was up to our back door.
与此同时，水进来了，潮水进来了，当我们真正担心的时候，已经到了我们的后门。
All of a sudden, this bay that I was swimming in all my life was right up in our house, and still moving.
突然之间，我一生都在其中游泳的这个海湾就在我们的房子里，而且还在移动。
Narrator: The ocean turned a sickly yellow color.
旁白：海洋变成了病态的黄色。
The wind yanked trees with all of their roots out of the ground and churned the leaves into a paste that turned the graceful white houses of Westhampton green.
风把树木连根拔起，把树叶搅成糊状，把西汉普顿优雅的白色房子变成了绿色。
Then, suddenly, the wind died, the sun broke through and people emerged to assess the storm's toll.
然后，风突然停了，太阳出来了，人们出来评估风暴造成的损失。
Patricia Shuttleworth: People all over the area thought the storm was over and came out.
帕特里夏·沙特尔沃斯：整个地区的人们都以为风暴已经结束并出来了。
Then, of course, the wind shifted from the northeast -- which it had been blowing -- and to the southwest, and the eye passed over and then it began to blow twice as hard as it had before.
然后，当然，风从原来吹的东北风转向了西南风，眼睛掠过，然后开始吹得比以前猛烈一倍。
Narrator: The eye of the hurricane brought calm for about 20 minutes.
旁白：飓风眼带来了大约20分钟的平静。
Then, as it moved away toward the Connecticut shore, Westhampton was hit a second time by the ring of winds just beyond the storm's eye, the fiercest part of the hurricane.
然后，当它向康涅狄格州海岸移动时，威安普顿第二次受到风暴眼之外的风环的袭击，这是飓风中最猛烈的部分。
Stuart Bartle: I looked out the window and a woman who was at the bottom of our driveway with the lights on her car on and she was coming up to our back door.
斯图尔特·巴特尔：我向窗外望去，看到一个女人站在我们车道的尽头，她的车灯亮着，她正朝我们的后门走来。
And she said, "Haven't you heard the news?" She said, "The beach is being evacuated.
她说：“你没有听到这个消息吗？”她说：“海滩上的人员正在疏散。
You got to get out of here."
你必须离开这里。”
Patricia Shuttleworth: About 3:30 or quarter of four, my brother came running into the house, saying, "The water's coming up, the water's coming up." And at that moment, they had to make, again, split-second decisions about what to do with all the people in the house.
帕特里夏·沙特尔沃斯：大约 3 点 30 分或四点一刻，我哥哥跑进屋里，说：“水涨了，水涨了。”在那一刻，他们必须再次瞬间决定如何对待房子里的所有人。
So they put as many people as they could into that little five-passenger Ford which they had.
因此，他们把尽可能多的人安置在他们拥有的那辆小型五座福特车上。
Mother drove.
妈妈开车。
She put grandmother in and her guests, Father and the other children, but they couldn't fit the help in, so they said, "You'll just have to fend for yourselves." And she said she would never forget the sight of them standing there, waiting, when the water came up.
她把祖母和她的客人、父亲和其他孩子放进去，但他们无法提供帮助，所以他们说：“你们只能自己照顾自己了。”她说她永远不会忘记当水上涨时他们站在那里等待的景象。
Narrator: One hundred and thirty mile an hour winds pounded the sea against the dunes, never letting the tide recede.
旁白：时速一百三十英里的风猛烈地冲击着大海，冲击着沙丘，潮水从未退去。
The surface of the ocean buckled and water, whipped by wind, crested into a dome 30 feet high.
海面弯曲，海水被风吹起，形成 30 英尺高的圆顶。
Servants left behind, owners trying to salvage their houses, spectators tricked by the lull -- these people now faced a surge of ocean water which swept across the barrier beach and poured inland.
留下的仆人、试图抢救房屋的主人、被平静所欺骗的观众——这些人现在面临着席卷堤坝海滩并涌入内陆的汹涌海水。
Stuart Bartle: Well, we got in the car, and there was tremendous mayhem.
斯图尔特·巴特尔：嗯，我们上了车，发生了巨大的混乱。
And that's when I, I looked out the front window and I saw this huge sea of water, like suddenly a lake was coming toward us.
就在那时，我从前窗往外看，看到了一片巨大的海水，就像突然有一个湖向我们涌来。
I guess it was that kind of feeling -- a lake coming toward us.
我想这就是那种感觉——一座湖向我们走来。
And the next thing I know, the woman had stopped the car or maybe the water stopped the car.
接下来我知道的是，那个女人已经把车停下来了，或者也许是水让车停了。
Anyway -- and the water came over the car and came right over the top of the car.
不管怎样——水淹没了汽车，直接淹没了汽车的顶部。
And I remember thinking, "My God, we're under water."
我记得我当时想：“天啊，我们在水里了。”
Patricia Shuttleworth: It was your worst nightmare coming true.
Patricia Shuttleworth：这是你最糟糕的噩梦成真。
I think many people have had through their years the nightmare of the ocean coming up and they're trying to get away from it and they can't get away from it.
我想很多人多年来都经历过海洋来临的噩梦，他们试图摆脱它，但却无法摆脱它。
And this was something you're seeing right in front of your eyes.
这就是你眼前所见的东西。
But everybody was trying to keep quiet and be brave when they thought every moment was their last.
但当每个人都认为每一刻都是最后一刻时，他们都试图保持安静并勇敢。
Narrator: There had been 179 houses in Westhampton Beach.
旁白：西汉普顿海滩曾经有 179 栋房屋。
After the storm surge, 153 had completely vanished.
风暴潮过后，153号完全消失。
A woman pulled from the wreckage announced that Long Island was sinking.
一名从残骸中救出的妇女宣布长岛正在下沉。
Anne Moore: Oh, it was exciting.
安妮·摩尔：哦，这太令人兴奋了。
I mean, from a 10-year-old's point of view, it was exciting, because boats were breaking loose and the wind.
我的意思是，从一个 10 岁孩子的角度来看，这很令人兴奋，因为船和风都松动了。
In fact, Cathy and I decided to go out, you know, to our favorite perch, but that didn't last long.
事实上，我和凯茜决定出去，你知道，去我们最喜欢的栖息地，但这并没有持续多久。
Narrator: On Rhode Island's Napatree Point, the Moore family had heard no news about the hurricane.
旁白：在罗德岛州的纳帕特里角，摩尔一家没有听到有关飓风的消息。
Telephone lines were down.
电话线路断了。
The calamity on Long Island across the way was completely unknown.
对面的长岛发生的灾难是完全未知的。
At first, the Moores responded as they would to any bad September storm.
起初，摩尔一家的反应就像对待九月的任何严重风暴一样。
They searched for towels and bathmats to stuff in windows and began to mop up.
他们找来毛巾和浴垫塞进窗户里，然后开始擦地。
Then the frame that held their dining room windows sprung out of the wall.
然后，固定餐厅窗户的框架从墙上弹了出来。
Anne Moore: There was some discussion between my parents about whether or not we should evacuate, whether we should get out of there, and they thought yes, we should.
安妮·摩尔：我的父母之间就我们是否应该撤离、是否应该离开那里进行了一些讨论，他们认为是的，我们应该这样做。
So we piled into the car that was inside and -- but tried to open the garage doors and couldn't get them open.
于是我们挤进了里面的车里——但是试图打开车库门却打不开。
Catherine Moore: They had given up all hope of being able to drive away.
凯瑟琳·摩尔：他们已经放弃了开车离开的所有希望。
There was no possibility of that.
不可能有这种可能。
There was no road.
没有路。
And so we got out of the car.
于是我们下了车。
We headed for the stairs quickly.
我们快步朝楼梯走去。
Anne Moore: The front door had burst in and there was water coming in there.
安妮·摩尔：前门被撞破，水流了进来。
And my father threw himself at that door to hold it.
我父亲扑向那扇门，挡住了门。
Catherine Moore: I remember looking at my father trying to hold a board against the front door, trying to hold the front door, and being quite sure, of course, that he could hold the ocean back, and then the horror of realizing that he couldn't.
凯瑟琳·摩尔：我记得看着我的父亲试图用一块木板抵住前门，试图守住前门，当然，我非常确定他可以阻挡大海，然后我惊恐地意识到他不能。
The original water, when we came home from school, was driven by wind and rain.
原来水，放学回家的时候，就被风吹雨打了。
But this was the ocean, this was the ocean coming, and when I think back on it, he was trying to hold back the ocean.
但这就是海洋，这是海洋即将来临，当我回想起来时，他试图阻止海洋。
Narrator: Jeffrey Moore was facing the hurricane at its peak strength.
旁白：杰弗里·摩尔正面临最强的飓风。
Winds that had spun for 10 days over the Atlantic, pulling in moisture and building power as they went, now threw their force onto the Rhode Island coast.
狂风在大西洋上空盘旋了十天，一边带走水分一边积聚能量，现在又将力量吹向了罗德岛州海岸。
The Moores' ground floor filled with water.
摩尔家的底层充满了水。
Anne Moore: We rushed up the stairs, went into one of the bedrooms -- it happened to be my father's bedroom which was on the side toward the Nestor house -- and we could see their faces at the window.
安妮·摩尔：我们冲上楼梯，走进其中一间卧室——这恰好是我父亲的卧室，位于内斯特房子的一侧——我们可以在窗户上看到他们的脸。
And they were kind of waving to us and we were waving to them.
他们向我们招手，我们也在向他们招手。
And finally, they apparently decided to try and make it to our house.
最后，他们显然决定尝试到达我们家。
Their house was beginning to go.
他们的房子开始消失了。
Catherine Moore: We did know that the houses around us were going, but I remember looking out of the window and seeing the Nestors' house next door.
凯瑟琳·摩尔：我们确实知道周围的房子要倒塌，但我记得向窗外看去，看到了隔壁内斯托尔的房子。
And it was Ann Nestor who came out on the porch of the house.
从房子的门廊上出来的是安·内斯特。
There was also a maid and another lady in that house and they were out on the porch.
那所房子里还有一名女仆和另一位女士，她们在门廊上。
And a wave came and then they were gone.
一阵波浪袭来，然后他们就消失了。
Anne Moore: It was a terrible feeling, but then we watched as the Nestor house essentially fell over.
安妮·摩尔：那是一种可怕的感觉，但后来我们看到内斯特的房子基本上倒塌了。
At that point, there was more than a sense that we were not going to make it.
那时，我们有一种感觉，我们无法成功。
It was almost a certainty, almost an assumption that we were not going to make it.
这几乎是肯定的，几乎是假设我们不会成功。
It didn't seem possible, with the houses being swept away.
这似乎不可能，因为房子都被冲走了。
When it cleared a little bit, we could see that the houses beyond the Nestors' house had been swept away.
当天色稍稍晴朗时，我们可以看到内斯托尔家后面的房子都被冲走了。
And the water was rising.
水位正在上涨。
There was no way out of it that we could see.
我们看不到任何出路。
Catherine Moore: The house shimmied, as far as I recall, but it was rather like an elevator going down sideways -- a shift from one side to the other and a sinking, all of a sudden a sinking wow.
凯瑟琳·摩尔：据我所知，房子在摇晃，但它更像是一部横向下降的电梯——从一侧转移到另一侧，然后下沉，突然下沉哇。
And that was when the floor went out.
就在那时，地板消失了。
Anne Moore: And then someone -- Daddy, I assume -- said, "Run for the third floor," and that was enough to knock you off your feet, you know.
安妮·摩尔：然后有人——我想是爸爸——说，“跑到三楼”，这足以让你震惊，你知道。
To go upstairs, you'd have to hang on the railing, and that was a big jolt.
要想上楼，就得扶着栏杆，晃动很大。
And then there we were, up on the third floor, under the roof.
然后我们就到了，在三楼的屋顶下。
There was no place else to go.
没有其他地方可去。
Narrator: The Moore house was the last one standing on Napatree point.
旁白：摩尔的房子是纳帕特里角上最后一座矗立的房子。
Catherine and Jeffrey Moore, four children, Aunt May, two maids and a handyman were huddled in the maid's room when they felt the house shake free of its foundations.
凯瑟琳·摩尔和杰弗里·摩尔、四个孩子、梅婶婶、两个女佣和一名勤杂工，当他们感到房子从地基上摇晃时，他们挤在女佣的房间里。
Catherine Moore: We all clung together on this piece of flooring, which served as a raft, strangely enough, and there was still some of the house attached to it.
凯瑟琳·摩尔：我们都紧贴在这块地板上，它充当木筏，奇怪的是，房子的一些部分仍然附着在上面。
And next thing I knew, we were floating we were on the water with the waves crashing over us, and part of the house still attached, one of the walls still attached to this piece of floor, and it almost acted as a sail.
接下来我知道的是，我们漂浮在水面上，海浪拍打着我们，房子的一部分仍然附着，其中一堵墙仍然附着在这块地板上，它几乎充当了帆。
Anne Moore: In a case like that, you lose all sense of where you are, of direction.
安妮·摩尔：在这种情况下，你会完全失去自己的位置和方向感。
We assumed we were going out to sea.
我们以为我们要出海。
After all, we couldn't see anything.
毕竟我们什么也看不见。
We couldn't see any land anywhere.
我们到处都看不到任何陆地。
Catherine Moore: I'm sure that there must have been just cold fear in the pit of their stomachs, but it didn't translate to us.
凯瑟琳·摩尔：我确信他们内心深处一定有寒冷的恐惧，但这并没有转化为我们。
I thought I was going to die.
我以为我要死了。
I can remember thinking I was going to die, and in those days, of course, that was followed by, "I'm going to Heaven."
我记得当时我以为我就要死了，当然，在那些日子里，紧接着就是“我要去天堂”。
Beatrice Lowry Edmond: I guess we used to call Mom a "home Baptist" because she was always there at home Sunday noontimes to make dinner.
比阿特丽斯·洛瑞·埃德蒙：我想我们过去常常称妈妈为“家庭浸信会”，因为她周日中午总是在家做饭。
And Dad and we two girls came to church and sang in the choir.
爸爸和我们两个女孩来到教堂，在唱诗班里唱歌。
So it was just part of our life.
所以这只是我们生活的一部分。
Narrator: As the hurricane reached Westerly, Rhode Island, the women of the Mothers Club of Christ Church were gathered at May Lowry's beachfront cottage for their first get-together of the season.
旁白：当飓风抵达罗德岛州韦斯特利时，基督教会母亲俱乐部的妇女们聚集在梅·洛瑞的海滨小屋，这是她们本季的第一次聚会。
Their picnic had been postponed twice, but that morning, at last, the weather was good.
他们的野餐已经推迟了两次，但那天早上，天气终于晴朗了。
When May Lowry woke up, she prepared carrot-and-egg salad sandwiches for the picnic.
当梅·洛瑞醒来时，她为野餐准备了胡萝卜鸡蛋沙拉三明治。
She was busy and chose not to take Communion with the rest of the churchwomen that day.
那天她很忙，选择不与其他女牧师一起领圣餐。
Jack Tobin: That morning, they would have been at home, making excited plans for the picnic luncheon and so forth that they were going to have, and they're all day at the beach.
杰克·托宾：那天早上，他们本来应该在家里，为即将举行的野餐午餐等制定兴奋的计划，然后他们一整天都在海滩上。
And then they came to church at 10 o'clock, and my father was the rector of the church and he did the service for them.
然后他们十点钟就来到了教堂，我父亲是教堂的教区长，他为他们做礼拜。
And then, after that, they joyfully headed for Misquamicut and the beach and their picnic day.
然后，在那之后，他们高兴地前往米斯瓜米库特和海滩，开始他们的野餐日。
Narrator: Minister Tobin made the trip down to Lowry cottage to share lunch with the Mothers Club.
旁白：托宾部长前往洛瑞小屋与母亲俱乐部分享午餐。
These were the faithful women of his church.
这些是他教会里忠实的妇女。
Nellie Poutray lived with her daughter, who supported them both working as a clerk at Var's Pharmacy.
内莉·普特雷 (Nellie Poutray) 与女儿住在一起，女儿供养她们俩在瓦尔药房当店员。
And there was Zalee Livingston.
还有扎莉·利文斯顿。
She lived with three generations of family.
她与三代家庭住在一起。
She sewed the clothes and curtains, scrubbed the floors, stole time for herself at the local library, reading until it closed.
她缝衣服和窗帘，擦地板，在当地的图书馆里偷偷地读书，直到关门为止。
Ruth Friend cooked for the church, volunteered at the Masonic Lodge.
露丝·弗兰德 (Ruth Friend) 为教堂做饭，在共济会分会做志愿者。
The Reverend couldn't stay at the picnic.
牧师不能留在野餐现场。
He had a funeral at church later that afternoon.
当天下午晚些时候，他在教堂举行了葬礼。
Mrs. Livingston's grandson, four years old, was frightened by the noise of the surf, so the minister took the boy back with him.
利文斯顿夫人四岁的孙子被海浪的噪音吓坏了，所以牧师把这个男孩带了回来。
That left 10 women in May Lowry's cottage when the tide began to rise over the barrier beach.
当潮水开始涨过屏障海滩时，梅·洛瑞的小屋里只剩下 10 名妇女。
Beatrice Lowry Edmond: The wind was blowing so hard that she realized maybe that our house was not that secure, so they went over to this other house which was more strongly built.
Beatrice Lowry Edmond：风吹得很大，她意识到我们的房子可能不太安全，所以他们去了另一栋建造得更坚固的房子。
The lady who rented the house did get very frightened, so she said she was going to get in her car and leave and did any of these other women want to go with her?
租房子的那位女士确实很害怕，所以她说她要上车离开，其他女士有愿意和她一起走的吗？
And they all said no, they were not afraid, and would wait the storm out.
他们都说不，他们不害怕，会等待暴风雨过去。
Jack Tobin: They were in the cottage with the wind blowing to the point where it was tearing the cottage apart.
杰克·托宾：他们在小屋里，风吹得把小屋撕碎了。
They moved to a larger cottage, but the same thing was happening there.
他们搬到了一个更大的小屋，但同样的事情也发生在那里。
The waves were knocking against the door of the house.
海浪不断地敲打着房子的门。
It must have been a terribly fearful, dreadful thing -- caught, trapped out there.
它一定是一件非常可怕的事情——被抓住、困在那里。
They had no place to go to escape this.
他们无处可去来逃避这一切。
Narrator: At 4:30 in the afternoon, the ocean surged across the Rhode Island beach.
旁白：下午4点30分，海浪汹涌地席卷了罗德岛海滩。
Along the short strip from Watch Hill to Point Judith, 118 people were killed, including the 10 women of Christ Church.
从守望山 (Watch Hill) 到朱迪思角 (Point Judith) 的短短地带，共有 118 人丧生，其中包括基督教堂 (Christ Church) 的 10 名妇女。
Doris Layden: About 3 o'clock, the wind started.
多丽丝·雷登：大约三点钟，开始刮风了。
It sounded like a train coming through, like a whoosh, and it was the most awful sound you ever heard in your life.
听起来就像火车驶过一样，就像呼啸而过，这是你一生中听到过的最可怕的声音。
And we really were very frightened.
我们真的非常害怕。
I called home and my dad said he would be down to get me.
我打电话回家，我爸爸说他会来接我。
I got into the car, my father¹s car, and we went up toward the cathedral.
我上了车，我父亲的车，然后我们朝大教堂走去。
There was a furniture store there, and the whole glass came out in one unit and then went right up the street, shattering as it went.
那里有一家家具店，整个玻璃在一个单元中出来，然后径直流向街道，边走边碎。
And the streets were popping.
街道上一片热闹。
You could hear popping all over the place, and it was the windows coming out.
你可以听到到处都是爆裂声，那是窗户被打开的声音。
And the city was being flooded and it came up with such force that there were actual waves in the center of Providence, and the trolley cars were just submerged.
这座城市正在被洪水淹没，其威力如此之大，以至于普罗维登斯市中心出现了真正的波浪，有轨电车刚刚被淹没。
And when they were submerged, all these cars, the horns shorted, and the sound of the horns through the water was the most eerie thing you ever heard in your life.
当它们被淹没时，所有这些汽车，喇叭都短了，喇叭穿过水面的声音是你一生中听到过的最怪异的事情。
Narrator: The hurricane traveled up Narragansett Bay, hitting Providence at high tide.
旁白：飓风沿着纳拉甘西特湾移动，在涨潮时袭击了普罗维登斯。
The bay acted as a funnel.
海湾就像一个漏斗。
The storm surge had nowhere to go but downtown.
风暴潮除了市中心无处可去。
Waves inundated the sewers.
海浪淹没了下水道。
Manhole covers burst open, and this land which was once marsh filled with water again, 14 feet at its highest point.
井盖爆开，这片曾经是沼泽的土地再次充满了水，最高点有14英尺。
Loraine Fogel: It was just gushing into all the small shops there on Weybosett Street.
Loraine Fogel：它涌入了 Weybosett 街上的所有小商店。
And the cars that were parked there were just going down Dorrance Street just like barrels, right into the Providence River.
停在那里的汽车就像桶一样顺着多伦斯街驶入普罗维登斯河。
Narrator: Downtown Providence was transformed into a surreal junkyard.
旁白：普罗维登斯市中心变成了一个超现实的垃圾场。
Uprooted houses from the neighboring community of Warwick, barrels of heating oil, great boulders from dockyards, sofas and chairs, hats and fur coats -- all washed into the city streets.
邻近沃里克社区的房屋、成桶的取暖油、造船厂的巨石、沙发和椅子、帽子和毛皮大衣——全都被冲到了城市街道上。
People sought refuge wherever they could: the City Hall steps, the Biltmore Hotel, anywhere that was high and dry.
人们尽可能地寻求避难：市政厅台阶、比特摩尔酒店，以及任何地势高、干燥的地方。
For the first time in its history, the downtown Hope Club was forced to admit women.
市中心的希望俱乐部历史上第一次被迫接纳女性。
The old-timers complained fiercely.
老人们怨声载道。
They said no good would come of it.
他们说这样做不会有任何好处。
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg: My gosh, what a day to pick for a wedding, and you know, you plan and you plan and you plan, and then this happened.
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg：我的天哪，真是一个适合举办婚礼的日子，你知道，你计划了，你计划了，你计划了，然后这件事发生了。
Narrator: One of the places where people sought refuge was at Joe and Loraine Fogel's wedding.
旁白：乔和洛兰·福格尔的婚礼是人们寻求庇护的地方之一。
Strangers ate all the food and drank the champagne.
陌生人吃掉了所有的食物并喝了香槟。
Meanwhile, the groom was stranded for hours at Union Station.
与此同时，新郎在联合车站滞留了几个小时。
Josef Fogel: Finally, the ceremony did get on.
约瑟夫·福格尔：仪式终于进行了。
We were married by one of the judges in Providence.
普罗维登斯的一位法官为我们举行了婚礼。
The ceremony was held early in the evening, by candlelight.
仪式在傍晚时分在烛光下举行。
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg: The judge who married Joe and Loraine, of course, was so anxious to get home because his family had no idea where he was, either.
玛丽莲·福格尔·施洛斯伯格：当然，与乔和洛兰结婚的法官非常渴望回家，因为他的家人也不知道他在哪里。
And so we just kind of grouped together and boom, boom, boom, that was the ceremony.
所以我们就聚集在一起，然后繁荣，繁荣，繁荣，这就是仪式。
Narrator: The Fogels had booked their wedding night at the best hotel in town, the Biltmore, just a few blocks away.
旁白：福格尔夫妇在镇上最好的酒店比尔特莫酒店预订了他们的新婚之夜，距离酒店只有几个街区。
But now, once again, they were blocked, this time by the human tide that swept downtown as the waters ebbed.
但现在，他们再次被阻挡，这次是被洪水退潮时席卷市中心的人潮所阻挡。
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg: You know, '38 was not a prosperous time in our lives, and I would imagine that a lot of these people saw an opportunity and grabbed it.
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg：你知道，38 年并不是我们生活中的繁荣时期，我想很多人看到了机会并抓住了它。
Narrator: As night fell, looters moved through the city.
旁白：夜幕降临，抢劫者在城市中流动。
They broke into Kay Jewelers, Liggett's, Woolworth's, the J.R.
他们闯入了 Kay Jewelers、Liggett's、Woolworth's、J.R.
Foster Company, and emptied the shelves.
福斯特公司，并清空了货架。
One looter forced his way into the Wood Marine Supply Store, took a rowboat and rowed down the street.
一名抢劫者强行闯入伍德海洋补给店，乘坐一艘划艇沿着街道划行。
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg: And so I sat up at the window, watching the activity downtown.
Marilyn Fogel Schlossberg：所以我坐在窗前，观看市中心的活动。
And every once in a while, you know, you'd see somebody running from one store to another and then the loudspeakers on.
每隔一段时间，你就会看到有人从一家商店跑到另一家商店，然后扩音器就打开了。
And they announced if you weren't, you know, out of town, that they were ready with guns drawn.
他们宣布，如果你没有出城，他们就已经准备好拔枪了。
And so in order to protect Joe and Loraine, to get them from the Narragansett to the Biltmore, they had to go by National Guard.
因此，为了保护乔和洛兰，为了把他们从纳拉甘西特送到比尔特莫尔，他们必须通过国民警卫队。
Loraine Fogel: We had one fellow in front of us with a bayonet, one fellow in back of us with a bayonet, and we were, you know, just mincing through the city rubble in the streets.
洛兰·福格尔：我们前面有一个拿着刺刀的家伙，我们后面也有一个拿着刺刀的家伙，你知道，我们只是在街道上的城市废墟中艰难前行。
Narrator: The great store displays of Weybosset and Dorrance Streets, which before had drawn crowds of windowshoppers, now were plundered.
旁白：韦博塞特街和多伦斯街的大型商店陈列品以前吸引了大批橱窗购物者，现在却遭到洗劫。
A Rhode Island writer, David de Jong, described what he saw.
罗德岛州作家大卫·德容描述了他的所见所闻。
"They came neck-deep or swimming, holding flashlights dry above them, rising out of the water and disappearing through the demolished store windows.
“他们来到齐颈深的地方，或者游泳，头上举着干燥的手电筒，从水中升起，消失在被拆除的商店橱窗里。
At first, there were few.
起初，人数很少。
Then there were hordes assisting each other.
然后就有成群的人互相帮助。
They were brazen and insatiable.
他们厚颜无耻，不知足。
They took everything.
他们拿走了一切。
When a few policemen came past in a rowboat, they didn't stop their looting.
当几个警察划着小船经过时，他们并没有停止抢劫。
They knew they outnumbered the police.
他们知道自己的人数超过了警察。
They seemed organized, almost regimented, as if they'd daily drilled and prepared for this event, the like of which hadn't happened in 120 years."
他们看起来很有组织，几乎是严格管制的，就好像他们每天都在为这一事件进行训练和准备，这样的事件已经 120 年来没有发生过了。”
Springfield, Massachusetts; Hanover, New Hampshire; Rutland, Vermont -- the hurricane charged across New England before coming to rest at 10 P.M.
马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔德；新罕布什尔州汉诺威；佛蒙特州拉特兰——飓风横扫新英格兰，并于晚上 10 点停止。
over Quebec.
魁北克上空。
Electrical fires broke out in New London, Connecticut and Peterborough, New Hampshire.
康涅狄格州新伦敦和新罕布什尔州彼得伯勒发生电气火灾。
Floods swept Massachusetts.
洪水席卷了马萨诸塞州。
In the end, the storm killed almost 700 people.
最终，风暴导致近 700 人死亡。
The National Weather Bureau denied responsibility.
国家气象局否认对此负责。
Early warnings would not have made a difference, the Bureau explained.
该局解释说，早期预警不会产生任何影响。
New Englanders wouldn't have paid attention.
新英格兰人不会注意到。
They were not properly hurricane-minded.
他们没有真正的飓风意识。
Ed Ecker: The next morning, we see the buildings in the fishing village askew, and when we got back down on the beach to get back to our home, there was dead silence, and it was just a flat calm -- no kind of sound whatsoever, no birds, no seagulls.
艾德·埃克：第二天早上，我们看到渔村里的建筑歪斜，当我们回到海滩准备回家时，周围一片死寂，一片平静——没有任何声音，没有鸟儿，也没有海鸥。
It was just quiet, very quiet.
只是很安静，非常安静。
Narrator: On the morning of September 22nd, the sky was a clean, clear blue.
旁白：9月22日早上，天空蔚蓝干净。
Seas were calm.
大海很平静。
There was hardly any wind.
几乎没有风。
The storm had left 6,300 people homeless.
风暴导致 6,300 人无家可归。
In Montauk, town supervisor Perry Duryea sent a wire to the Red Cross: "Montauk fishing village practically destroyed.
在蒙托克，镇主管佩里·杜里亚（Perry Duryea）给红十字会发了一封电报：“蒙托克渔村几乎被毁了。
Several lives lost and missing.
多人丧生或失踪。
No water, light or phone connections.
没有水、灯或电话连接。
Fishing industry wiped out.
渔业被消灭。
Immediate aid necessary."
需要立即提供援助。”
Milton Miller: Well, Montauk was completely gone.
米尔顿·米勒：嗯，蒙托克完全消失了。
That was wiped right out, and the whole winter it was a shock to me, you know.
那东西就被消灭了，整个冬天都让我震惊，你知道。
I never got straightened out until the following spring.
直到第二年春天我才恢复正常。
Stuart Bartle: It was just a total mess.
斯图尔特·巴特尔：这简直是一团糟。
Everything was a mess, and people were picking over the wreckage, looking among the wreckage.
一切都一片狼藉，人们在残骸中捡拾，在残骸中寻找。
Patricia Shuttleworth: There was nothing but debris everywhere.
Patricia Shuttleworth：到处都是废墟，什么也没有。
In the village, up to where the water had gone, it was very bad.
村子里，一直到水没了的地方，情况都很糟糕。
There was very bad debris on all the roads.
所有道路上都有非常严重的碎片。
It looked as if an atomic bomb had gone off.
看起来就像一颗原子弹爆炸了。
Narrator: On Westhampton's Dune Road, looters picked over the bodies on the beach, rifling handbags, slipping jewelry from fingers before the dead could be reclaimed by their families.
旁白：在西汉普顿的沙丘路上，抢劫者在海滩上的尸体上翻找，搜查手提包，在死者的家人接回尸体之前从手指上偷走珠宝。
Patricia Shuttleworth: The country club was turned into a morgue that evening, and when bodies were brought in, they were laid out on the floor.
帕特里夏·沙特尔沃斯：那天晚上，乡村俱乐部变成了太平间，当尸体被运进来时，它们被放在地板上。
And, of course, there was no electricity, so people wanting to search for their relatives had to come in with flashlights or candles.
当然，这里没有电，所以想要寻找亲人的人们必须带着手电筒或蜡烛进来。
And it was a very eerie scene.
这是一个非常诡异的场景。
When just a few weeks before, there had been very happy Labor Day dance going on there, now the dance floor became a morgue.
几周前，那里还举行过非常欢乐的劳动节舞会，现在舞池变成了停尸房。
Narrator: The storm had wrought havoc all through New England.
旁白：风暴给整个新英格兰带来了严重破坏。
Thousands of livestock were killed.
数以千计的牲畜被杀。
Crops were flattened, farmers wiped out.
庄稼被夷为平地，农民被消灭。
Two hundred and seventy-five million trees were knocked down, including a third of Vermont's sugar maples, half of New Hampshire's white pines.
两亿七千五百万棵树被砍倒，其中包括佛蒙特州三分之一的糖枫，新罕布什尔州一半的白松。
But all this paled compared to Rhode Island -- 380 people dead, most in the beachfront towns.
但与罗德岛州相比，这一切都显得黯然失色——共有 380 人死亡，其中大多数发生在海滨城镇。
In Westerly, May Lowry's husband came to the rectory of Christ Church to get help.
在韦斯特利，梅·洛瑞的丈夫来到基督教堂的教区寻求帮助。
He and the minister's son borrowed a truck from the local garage.
他和部长的儿子从当地的车库借了一辆卡车。
Jack Tobin: We drove along the shore road and my friend and companion on this trip, David Lowry, was looking for his wife -- that was Beatrice's mother.
杰克·托宾：我们沿着海岸路行驶，我的朋友兼同伴大卫·洛瑞正在寻找他的妻子——也就是比阿特丽斯的母亲。
And we soon came upon a body which he thought was his wife.
我们很快就发现了一具尸体，他认为那是他的妻子。
I was pretty sure that it wasn't.
我很确定事实并非如此。
He tried to give her artificial respiration, but it was long since past where that might have helped.
他试图给她进行人工呼吸，但这种方法早已不再有帮助了。
And we searched the area as best we could among the wreckage that was available to us, and we put, oh, five or six bodies in the back of the pickup truck.
我们尽最大努力在我们能找到的残骸中搜索该地区，然后我们把，哦，五六具尸体放在皮卡车的后面。
That seemed to be all we could do at that point.
这似乎是我们当时能做的一切。
Beatrice Lowry Edmond: The storm was Wednesday, and I think it was Saturday -- either late Friday or Saturday -- before someone found her who recognized her.
比阿特丽斯·洛瑞·埃德蒙：风暴发生在周三，我认为是周六——要么是周五晚些时候，要么是周六——才有人找到她并认出了她。
And just you became one of the rest of the town of Westerly to have to go through waiting your turn to be buried.
而你就成了韦斯特利镇其他人中的一员，必须等待轮到你被埋葬。
Jack Tobin: We knew of people who were missing, but many of them weren't found for days and days and days, so that Christ Church became almost a continuous funeral service.
杰克·托宾：我们知道有人失踪，但他们中的许多人几天又几天都没有找到，因此基督教堂几乎成了一个持续不断的葬礼。
There would be a funeral today, there would be two funerals tomorrow, there would be three the next day, there would be two the next day.
今天有一个葬礼，明天有两个葬礼，后天有三个葬礼，后天有两个葬礼。
And this went on for a week or 10 days.
这种情况持续了一周或十天。
Narrator: Westerly's tragedy was a private one.
旁白：韦斯特利的悲剧是一场私人悲剧。
There was no television, no working telephones.
没有电视，也没有可用的电话。
A single ham radio operator was the town's only connection to the outside world.
一名业余无线电操作员是该镇与外界的唯一联系。
All through New England, electricity was out.
整个新英格兰地区都断电了。
People huddled in cars with their radios on, trying to get news.
人们挤在汽车里，打开收音机，试图获取新闻。
But on the 22nd and the days that followed, it was not the hurricane that dominated the airwaves, but the threat of war in Europe.
但22日及随后的几天里，主宰电视广播的并不是飓风，而是欧洲的战争威胁。
On the very day of the hurricane, the Czech parliament gave in to the Nazis.
飓风发生当天，捷克议会向纳粹屈服。
Neville Chamberlain would announce that he had secured "peace in our time." The events in Long Island and New England were overwhelmed by those in Munich.
内维尔·张伯伦宣布他已经实现了“我们这个时代的和平”。长岛和新英格兰的事件压倒了慕尼黑的事件。
The hurricane of '38 was one of this country's worst natural disasters, but many Americans were hardly aware it had happened.
38 年的飓风是这个国家最严重的自然灾害之一，但许多美国人几乎没有意识到它已经发生。
The storm left just as it came -- hidden from public view.
风暴来得正是时候——隐藏在公众视野之外。
Anne Moore: When we came back, I think it would almost have been easier to take if there had been a lot of debris.
安妮·摩尔：当我们回来时，我认为如果有很多碎片的话，采取行动会更容易。
But it was sand with chunks of our seawall, but there was very little sign that there had ever been houses there at all.
但那是沙子，里面有大块的海堤，但几乎没有迹象表明那里曾经有过房屋。
Narrator: The local paper reported that Anne Moore's mother had drowned in the hurricane.
旁白：当地报纸报道说安妮·摩尔的母亲在飓风中溺亡。
In fact, the entire Moore family, clutching their piece of bedroom floor, had blown clear across Little Narragansett Bay and landed safely in Connecticut.
事实上，整个摩尔家族抓着他们卧室的地板，被风吹过小纳拉甘西特湾，安全降落在康涅狄格州。
After the hectic business of denying she was dead, Mrs. Moore sat down and wrote a letter to her brother.
在忙于否认自己的死亡之后，摩尔夫人坐下来给她的兄弟写了一封信。
"I sometimes feel that we have had a preview of the end of the world.
“我有时觉得我们已经预演了世界末日。
For some, it was the end.
对于某些人来说，这就是结束。
It might easily have been we.
很可能就是我们。
We experienced every sensation except that of actually leaving this world, but that was not in the pattern of our lives.
除了真正离开这个世界的感觉之外，我们经历过每一种感觉，但这并不是我们生活的模式。
We who have been through this hurricane, I'm sure, have gained a deeper, more complete outlook on life than we could have ever gained otherwise.
我确信，经历过这场飓风的我们已经获得了比其他方式更深刻、更完整的人生观。
Lots of love, Catherine."
充满爱，凯瑟琳。”
Several families documented the destruction wrought by the Hurricane of '38 with their home movie camera.
几个家庭用家用摄像机记录了 38 年飓风造成的破坏。
Before the system of naming hurricanes was initiated during the early 1950s, tropical storms and hurricanes were often named with reference to the year of their occurrence and the area they devastated.
在 20 世纪 50 年代初启动飓风命名系统之前，热带风暴和飓风通常根据其发生年份和遭受破坏的地区来命名。
The Great Colonial Hurricane in 1963 to Hurricane Ike's landfall in Galveston, Texas, in 2008.
从 1963 年的殖民大飓风到 2008 年飓风艾克在德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿登陆。
Captain Arthur A.
亚瑟·A.船长
Small had kept the lighthouse on Palmer's Island near New Bedford since 1919.
自 1919 年以来，斯莫尔一直保留着新贝德福德附近帕尔默岛上的灯塔。
In Chilmark, on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Benedict Thielen and his wife watched as water began to trickle into their summer home.
在玛莎葡萄园岛上的奇尔马克，本尼迪克特·蒂伦和他的妻子看着水开始流入他们的避暑别墅。
Harrison McDonald was traveling by train from Albany, New York, to Boston, Massachusetts during the 1938 Hurricane.
1938 年飓风期间，哈里森·麦克唐纳 (Harrison McDonald) 乘火车从纽约州奥尔巴尼前往马萨诸塞州波士顿。
Helen Joy Lee, daughter of the founder of the Packard Motor Car Company, summered at Watch Hill, Rhode Island for a number of years.
海伦·乔伊·李 (Helen Joy Lee) 是帕卡德汽车公司创始人的女儿，曾在罗德岛州守望山 (Watch Hill) 避暑多年。
Florida resident Mrs. Norman was not surprised and sat down to observe what she thought was a peach of a windstorm.
佛罗里达州居民诺曼夫人并不感到惊讶，她坐下来观察她认为是一场暴风雨。
On September 21, 1938, the 1:00p.m.
1938 年 9 月 21 日，下午 1:00。
tee-off at the Kittansett Golf Club in Marion, Massachusetts, was reserved for Charles Peirson, the club treasurer, John MacDonald, a member, and the golf pro, Raymond A.
马萨诸塞州马里昂基坦西特高尔夫俱乐部的开球场地是为俱乐部财务主管查尔斯·皮尔森、会员约翰·麦克唐纳和职业高尔夫球手雷蒙德·A·麦克唐纳保留的。
Dennehy
丹尼希
Norman Caswell was driving eight students from the Thomas H.
诺曼·卡斯韦尔（Norman Caswell）驾驶着托马斯·H·肯尼迪学校的八名学生。
Clark Elementary School back to their homes in the afternoon of September 21, 1938 when a surge from the hurricane swept across the spit of land and washed the bus into the water.
1938 年 9 月 21 日下午，克拉克小学回到家中，飓风席卷了这片土地，将巴士冲入水中。
On September 21, 1938, the headlines in the Boston Evening Transcript read "Czechs in Surrender" and below that: "Raging Floods Sweep N.E.
1938 年 9 月 21 日，《波士顿晚报》的头条新闻是“捷克人投降”，下面是“猛烈的洪水席卷了东北部”。
[New England], 11 Dead in 4-Day Rain."
[新英格兰]，4 天的雨中有 11 人死亡。”
The material damage of the storm has been calculated to be $4.7 billion in 2001 dollars.
据计算，按 2001 年美元计算，风暴造成的物质损失达 47 亿美元。
Six hundred and eighty lives were lost in the destruction and rising waters.
六百八十人在破坏和上涨的洪水中丧生。