Read about the Labor Day hurricane of 1935
The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall in the United States on record[1] and the most intense Atlantic hurricane until Hurricane Gilbert. The second tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 1935 Atlantic hurricane season, the Labor Day Hurricane was the first of three Category 5 hurricanes to strike the United States at that intensity during the 20th century (the other two being 1969’s Hurricane Camille and 1992’s Hurricane Andrew). After forming as a weak tropical storm east of the Bahamas on August 29, it slowly proceeded westward and became a hurricane on September 1.
Men caught in it literally had all their flesh and bones ripped their bodies tend were not able to be ID
No warning in the keys at ALL
NOW
warnings are ridiculous. And good that they are
Remeber. Last year kids ?
Hemingway wrote an article about it.
And from what I can tell most if not all of the deaths were due to storm surge rather than wind.
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/16158