Hi Neighbor,

It was a Thanksgiving weekend to remember. Especially for Staten Islanders in 1950.

Think back 13 years to Hurricane Sandy. This storm might have been worse.

Thanksgiving 1950 fell on November 23. On November 25 -- Saturday -- a wild hurricane savaged our shorefront, from Fort Wadsworth to Tottenville, floating bungalows off their foundations, swallowing city buses in sandy sinkholes, hurling boats inland and floating airplanes around two airports in New Springville.

Oddly, there was no hint of a massive storm on the horizon in the days before. Maybe Advance editors back then didn’t care much about predicting the weather. Or maybe forecasters didn’t have all the fancy tools like Doppler radar, weather satellites, and high-performance computers.

Readers on the day before “

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