Wreckage from Hurricane Hazel in eastern US and Canada in 1953

Title card: "Hurricane Rips Path - Carolina to Canada" superimposed over willow tree branches blown by high wind / willow tree branches and little trees near Potomac River shoreline wave in high wind as Haines Point stands in background / wind blows sand on Virginia beach / sand blows along beach with stormy ocean in background / dark storm clouds / Ontario, Canada, night: emergency responders and police stand around as rescue effort is prepared; pan to rowboat in water / police with rowboat / WS police stand on shore of flooded area where George Eliot clings to a tree, trapped by flood / day: police in raincoat, spectators on shoreline / rowboat moves in flooded waters around bank of trees / policeman works with rope as onlookers and other first responder personnel stand nearby / WS Eliot and another person in the rowboat after the 6-hour rescue effort / police officer stands solemnly / policeman and rescuer Max Hurley support Eliot as they approach, pass camera / Toronto, Ontario, Canada: aerial homes in flooded neighborhood / man stands in boat as seated man rows it through flooded neighborhood with trees on sides of shot / montage flood in trailer area, with camper trailers and other trailers upended and damaged / people walk in both directions past sign "Metropolitan Toronto" / rubble and destroyed house / flooding and silt at riverbank / aerial washed-out bridge with road rubble on one end and high water beneath / montage flood waters submerge part of a span bridge