It's a storm so powerful and destructive that it must be a hurricane...
but it's not.

Vermonters felt like they were getting hit by a hurricane on this day in 1950.

The winds for a hurricane start clocking at an official 73 miles per hour, and the winds with this storm were definitely higher than that...but this storm didn't originate over ocean waters, nor did it have a warm core. That didn't matter much to Vermonters, as it caused damage much like that of a hurricane.

The storm became known as the Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, tearing up the Appalachian Mountain range, wreaking havoc in a broad swath from the Carolinas all the way to Canada. Heavy winds and rain shut down most of Vermont.

Image courtesy The Vermonter.

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