The morning of Aug. 24, 1933 found residents of Gloucester and Mathews, especially those of low-lying, flood-prone neighborhoods, gazing at the ruin strewn across yards, tidal marshes, and waterways. The legendary Great August Storm, which blew in the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 22, 1933, and inundated whole communities, left huge destruction in its wake. Guinea was probably the worst-hit area. We reprint below some of the facts related by the Gloucester Gazette. These are from three consecutive issues: Aug. 24, 1933, when no one really knew how bad things were; Aug. 31, 1933, when every remote area had been visited and the true toll was apparent, and Sept. 7, when recovery was underway. Strong, destructive hurricanes come every generation or so, most recently Hurricane Isabel in 2003. That one was so bad that it provoked instant comparisons to the Great August Storm which had happened 80 years earlier. In most places, that storm still held its title as the worst in living memory. Glouces...