Hurricane Bob, in 1991, remains the last hurricane to make landfall in New England. “It’s almost like a paradox all you can hear is the wind,” he said. Baron said, that he could no longer hear the sounds of crashing debris, and the scene outside was blotted out by bands of rain. Peering through the windshield, he could see road signs flopping back and forth, making an unearthly twanging sound the van began to shake as if there were a crowd around it, trying to tip it over. “I say, ‘Well, I made my choice when I got up at 3 in the morning.’” Baron, who operates a weather station in Fairhaven, Mass. “The next thing I know, I’m looking out, I go, ‘Jesus, I’m all alone.’ I’m saying to myself, how bad is this going to get?” said Mr. As the winds picked up, the tourists and thrill-seekers thinned out and then disappeared entirely, he recalled. Baron, who was broadcasting that day on an AM radio station, went out before dawn so his bosses couldn’t tell him to stay home. Baron stocked his van with provisions - deviled ham and two 30-packs of Coors Light - fired up his shoe-box-size cellphone, parked beside the New Bedford, Mass., waterfront and waited for Hurricane Bob.

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