Coast of the United States in mid-September, causing the hurricane to curve northward and reach a rapid forward speed of . The powerful storm made two landfalls on September 21, first on Long Island at 19:45 UTC with winds of and second near New Haven, Connecticut, at 20:40 UTC with winds of . Although it is still analyzed as a hurricane at these landfalls, the system is believed to have been losing tropical characteristics. It completed extratropical transition over southern Vermont by 00:00 UTC on September 22. Residents of New England received little advanced notice on the powerful hurricane, whose strength was vastly underestimated in storm bulletins preceding its approach. These warnings were issued only a few hours before the cyclone made landfall, and forecasts over previous days had originally expected the hurricane to strike Florida. As a result, the storm was regarded as one of the most powerful and damaging cyclones in recorded history across the region. A massive storm surge of was recorded in Connecticut, while storm tides of lashed the Rhode Island coastline. The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Massachusetts recorded peak sustained winds of , gusting to ; the highest sustained wind measurement not influenced by terrain was at Fishers Island, New York. About of power and telephone lines were toppled on Long Island alone. Wave heights reached in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Several inches of rain occurred throughout New England, peaking at in Gardner, Massachusetts. Across the region, approximately 8,900 homes and buildings were destroyed and an additional 15,000 were damaged, leaving about 63,000 people homeless. Around 2 billion trees were destroyed. A total of 2,605 vessels were destroyed and 3,369 more were damaged. The estimate of people killed during the hurricane ranges from 494 to 700, with more than 1,700 individuals injured. Total damage was estimated at $620 million. Tropical Storm Seven A tropical depression formed over the Gulf of Honduras around 18:00 UTC on October 10 and quickly intensified into a tropical storm six hours later. The system moved northwest and struck San Pedro Town, Belize, with winds of at 08:00 UTC on October 11. It weakened to a tropical depression while moving across the Yucatán Peninsula but regained tropical storm intensity and reached peak winds of after emerging into the Gulf of Mexico. The cyclone turned east toward the Florida Keys but began backtracking on October 15, embarking on a west-northwest trajectory that brought