Hurricane season is winding down, and so far Virginia has been lucky but not so in 1933. Today's Out of the Box post looks at relief efforts by the Red Cross in Mathews Co. after the Chesapeake-Potomac hurricane devastated coastal Virginia in 1933.

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2012/10/03/when-disaster-struck-the-commonwealth-the-1933-chesapeake-potomac-hurricane/

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