The 115th anniversary of this is tomorrow.
On September 2, 1935, Labor Day, the hurricane reached a peak intensity of 892 mb. The hurricane made landfall later that night as a Category 5 storm, crossing the Florida Keys between Key West and Miami, FL. As it made landfall, the hurricane delivered maximum sustained winds of approximately 298 km/h (185 mph). After passing the Keys, the hurricane slowly recurved northward and closely paralleled Florida’s west coast.
http://www.hurricanescience.org/history/storms/1930s/LaborDay/
Bush's fault?
The lack of evacuation of the Keys in general and of the Vets in particular was due to the poor forecast by the U.S. Weather Bureau, which did not recognize the devastating strength of the storm and wrongly forecast that it would hit Cuba instead of the Keys. In fairness to the Weather Bureau, hurricane forecasting was then in its infancy, and even today, hurricane forecasting has a residual element of uncertainty as to strength and track that can have tragic consequences.
When I lived in the Keys decades ago before the new bridges were built, you could still see the twisted rails sticking up out of the bays on the seaward side. FDR sent the Boys on a vacation, a permanent one ...
An almost forgotten anniversary. 80 Labor Days ago.
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My mom says she remembers it but not the details, she was 15 when it happened. She remembers “all those boys drowning”
This storm was mentioned in Key Largo. Great scene.
L
The 115th anniversary of this is tomorrow.
The Labor Day Hurricane caused massive amounts of destruction and had a fairly high death toll. This image shows men standing near a large stack of coffins during the cleanup following the storm. Source: Florida State Archives
After graduating he immediately left town and voted never to return to the upscale but rather staid and unexciting suburb just west of Chicago.
He never did return except for one family member's funeral.
Then he was off to the Spanish Civil War, the bull fights, the plane crashes, the four wives, the Normandy landings, the Liberation of Paris, the Key West deep-sea fishing and six-toed pet cats, the alcoholism...and then the suicide.
I never cared all that much for his novels, many of them a little too tedious for me. But the magnificent story lines he wove made some of the most fascinating, captivating, colorful, exciting and popular movies in cinema annals.
I've seen every Hemingway film at one time or another, and loved them all. The greatest stars of the Golden Age of Movies were in every one of them!
Leni