The Portland Gale of 1898 was a big storm that hit the coast of Massachusetts in the end of fall of 1898. The storm was very destructive—it blew down houses, shipwrecked tons of ships, trees were fallen over, and power lines were down. In Scituate, it even permanently changed the coastline when it cut of the mouth if the North River and reversed the flow of it. The North River separated Marshfield and Fourth Cliff, now known as Humarock, and connected to the South River and the ocean, where it opened about two kilometers from the current mouth of the river. Before Portland Gale hit the area, a thin strip of beach connected Third Cliff to Fourth Cliff. After the storm, the beach was washed away leaving Fourth Cliff an island. This caused the