{"id":2059,"date":"2012-10-30T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T15:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2024-03-08T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T19:28:53","slug":"hurricane-rescue-stories-from-the-grand-isle-hurricane-of-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/hurricane-rescue-stories-from-the-grand-isle-hurricane-of-1909.html","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Rescue Stories from the \u2018Grand Isle\u2019 Hurricane of 1909"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Hurricane Sandy pounding the United States East Coast, we are experiencing right now how hurricanes can cause pain and destruction. It is true today and was true for our ancestors.<\/p>\n

Some of the bright spots in the major \u201cGrand Isle\u201d hurricane of 1909<\/a> that hit Louisiana are told in these newspaper hurricane rescue stories of \u201cthe rescue of a family in a small boat in which a baby had been born an hour before the relief steamer arrived\u201d and another account of a 4-year-old child \u201cfound lodged in the branches of a tree…[in] Terrebonne Parish, having survived for three days without food or water.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"rescues<\/a>
Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri), 24 September 1909, page 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We hope that all of GenealogyBank\u2019s readers are safe from Hurricane Sandy this difficult week.<\/p>\n

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With Hurricane Sandy pounding the United States East Coast, we are experiencing right now how hurricanes can cause pain and destruction. It is true today and was true for our ancestors. Some of the bright spots in the major \u201cGrand Isle\u201d hurricane of 1909 that hit Louisiana are told in these newspaper hurricane rescue stories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[2624,1129,2618,2621,465,2620,2622,629,1100,27,2623,2619,442,2625],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-east-coast","tag-family","tag-grand-isle","tag-grand-isle-hurricane","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-hurricanes","tag-la","tag-louisiana","tag-newspapers","tag-rescues","tag-terrebonne-parish","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-east-coast"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98115,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/98115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}