The last hurricane of that magnitude to hit Rhode Island was Hurricane Carol in 1954. Densely populated with many low-income residents, Oakland Beach is even more vulnerable to a large storm than ...

Hurricane Carol was one heck of a storm. The category 3 hurricane made landfall near Groton and brought devastating flooding and wind damage to parts of southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island ...

Such a storm would be akin to Hurricane Carol in 1954, which sent a surge ... year storm in some of the most vulnerable parts of Rhode Island. The program, known as the Coastal Environmental ...

director of the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, opens up a 3D map of the potential flooding damage to buildings on Conimicut Point in Warwick if a storm like Hurricane Carol in ...

Hurricanes Carol and Edna ... Parts of Connecticut's and Rhode Island's coastlines were devastated by Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall in New Jersey on Oct. 29, 2012 and became one of the ...