As it made landfall, the hurricane delivered maximum sustained winds of approximately 298 km/h (185 mph). The hurricane's strong winds destroyed most of the buildings in the Islamorada area, and many World War I veteran workers were killed by the storm surge. On September 2, 1935, Labor Day, the hurricane reached a peak intensity of 892 mb. A second stretch went from No Name Key down to Key West. The … Some were speared by flying lumber, Willie Drye wrote in "Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935." The large and strong hurricane caused severe damage in the upper Florida Keys, and a storm surge about 18 to 20 feet affected the region.
is an image of the track of the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, the most powerful storm to make landfall in the United States. It reached hurricane intensity near the south end of Andros Island on September 1. Weather Bureau, the predecessor of the National Weather Service, issued it first storm advisory Saturday, Aug. 31, just two days before the storm made landfall.The Weather Bureau predicted the storm would make landfall in Cuba on Labor Day.Locals, mostly Key lime farmers, who had experience with hurricanes, though, weren't so sure. Ignorance of the real danger from a tropical hurricane. The hurricane made landfall later that night as a Category 5 storm, crossing the Florida Keys between Key West and Miami, FL. Locals warned of the impending doom, but the road workers, many of the combat veterans replied along the lines of "I've faced machine gun fire, nothing scares me," Bertelli said.Even if they had heeded the warning, though, the veterans would have had no way of evacuating. Hurricane Dorian is forecast to strike Florida as a major storm on Labor Day. The second tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and second intense hurricane of the season was the most intense Atlantic hurricane that affected the United States, and it was the first of three Category 5 hurricanes that struck the country in the 20th century ... areas affected Bahamas, Florida Keys, Big Bend, Florida Panhandle, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia),http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008007038. They were paid $30 a month, plus room and board.At the time, a two-lane road from Miami extended as far south as Lower Matecumbe Key.
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As it made landfall, the hurricane delivered maximum sustained winds of approximately 298 km/h (185 mph). The hurricane's strong winds destroyed most of the buildings in the Islamorada area, and many World War I veteran workers were killed by the storm surge. On September 2, 1935, Labor Day, the hurricane reached a peak intensity of 892 mb. A second stretch went from No Name Key down to Key West. The … Some were speared by flying lumber, Willie Drye wrote in "Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935." The large and strong hurricane caused severe damage in the upper Florida Keys, and a storm surge about 18 to 20 feet affected the region.
is an image of the track of the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, the most powerful storm to make landfall in the United States. It reached hurricane intensity near the south end of Andros Island on September 1. Weather Bureau, the predecessor of the National Weather Service, issued it first storm advisory Saturday, Aug. 31, just two days before the storm made landfall.The Weather Bureau predicted the storm would make landfall in Cuba on Labor Day.Locals, mostly Key lime farmers, who had experience with hurricanes, though, weren't so sure. Ignorance of the real danger from a tropical hurricane. The hurricane made landfall later that night as a Category 5 storm, crossing the Florida Keys between Key West and Miami, FL. Locals warned of the impending doom, but the road workers, many of the combat veterans replied along the lines of "I've faced machine gun fire, nothing scares me," Bertelli said.Even if they had heeded the warning, though, the veterans would have had no way of evacuating. Hurricane Dorian is forecast to strike Florida as a major storm on Labor Day. The second tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and second intense hurricane of the season was the most intense Atlantic hurricane that affected the United States, and it was the first of three Category 5 hurricanes that struck the country in the 20th century ... areas affected Bahamas, Florida Keys, Big Bend, Florida Panhandle, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia),http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008007038. They were paid $30 a month, plus room and board.At the time, a two-lane road from Miami extended as far south as Lower Matecumbe Key.
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As it made landfall, the hurricane delivered maximum sustained winds of approximately 298 km/h (185 mph). The hurricane's strong winds destroyed most of the buildings in the Islamorada area, and many World War I veteran workers were killed by the storm surge. On September 2, 1935, Labor Day, the hurricane reached a peak intensity of 892 mb. A second stretch went from No Name Key down to Key West. The … Some were speared by flying lumber, Willie Drye wrote in "Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935." The large and strong hurricane caused severe damage in the upper Florida Keys, and a storm surge about 18 to 20 feet affected the region.
is an image of the track of the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, the most powerful storm to make landfall in the United States. It reached hurricane intensity near the south end of Andros Island on September 1. Weather Bureau, the predecessor of the National Weather Service, issued it first storm advisory Saturday, Aug. 31, just two days before the storm made landfall.The Weather Bureau predicted the storm would make landfall in Cuba on Labor Day.Locals, mostly Key lime farmers, who had experience with hurricanes, though, weren't so sure. Ignorance of the real danger from a tropical hurricane. The hurricane made landfall later that night as a Category 5 storm, crossing the Florida Keys between Key West and Miami, FL. Locals warned of the impending doom, but the road workers, many of the combat veterans replied along the lines of "I've faced machine gun fire, nothing scares me," Bertelli said.Even if they had heeded the warning, though, the veterans would have had no way of evacuating. Hurricane Dorian is forecast to strike Florida as a major storm on Labor Day. The second tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and second intense hurricane of the season was the most intense Atlantic hurricane that affected the United States, and it was the first of three Category 5 hurricanes that struck the country in the 20th century ... areas affected Bahamas, Florida Keys, Big Bend, Florida Panhandle, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia),http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008007038. They were paid $30 a month, plus room and board.At the time, a two-lane road from Miami extended as far south as Lower Matecumbe Key.
They were in the Keys to help build the Overseas Highway to Key West. "And pretty much every house and building was destroyed and mostly destroyed. The no-name hurricane killed some 500 people, about half of the local population, when it hit the Upper Florida Keys on Labor Day 1935. FILE - This September 1935 file photo shows the wreckage of a passenger train that was derailed by a Labor Day hurricane in the Florida Keys. Many were simply washed out to sea by the storm surge.As powerful as the storm was, it was also relatively compact, leaving the lower Keys and the southern portion of the mainland unscathed. "But nothing like this. The storm then explosively intensifiedand turned toward the Florida Keys at a rate of 10 mph. "Upper Matecumbe was the center of the community" Bertelli said. As Labor Day weekend approaches, Floridians are closely monitoring Hurricane Dorian, which could hit the Sunshine State early Monday as a Category 3 hurricane.Folks in 1935, before weather satellites, Doppler radar, the internet and even television, didn't have that option.And on Labor Day that year, which also fell on Sept. 2, some 500 people lost their lives as the most powerful hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States ripped part of the Upper Florida Keys to shreds.That was about half of the population that lived in the area at the time.The storm was so powerful that it knocked a train — sent to evacuate some 400 World War I veterans working in the area — off the tracks. Currently, it ranks third in lowest central pressure, behind Hurricane Wilma and Hurricane Gilbert (1988). But for Florida, it also marks the start of the peak of the hurricane season. All rights reserved.Labor Day weekend may mark the unofficial end of summer for much of the nation. ".The storm surge undermined the rail beds and twisted the tracks of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast rail line, which first connected Key West to the mainland in 1912. When she was discovered, she was still clutching the body of her young son.Perhaps half of those killed were World War I veterans employed be the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, a Depression-era agency designed to provide work for the unemployed.
As it made landfall, the hurricane delivered maximum sustained winds of approximately 298 km/h (185 mph). The hurricane's strong winds destroyed most of the buildings in the Islamorada area, and many World War I veteran workers were killed by the storm surge. On September 2, 1935, Labor Day, the hurricane reached a peak intensity of 892 mb. A second stretch went from No Name Key down to Key West. The … Some were speared by flying lumber, Willie Drye wrote in "Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935." The large and strong hurricane caused severe damage in the upper Florida Keys, and a storm surge about 18 to 20 feet affected the region.
is an image of the track of the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, the most powerful storm to make landfall in the United States. It reached hurricane intensity near the south end of Andros Island on September 1. Weather Bureau, the predecessor of the National Weather Service, issued it first storm advisory Saturday, Aug. 31, just two days before the storm made landfall.The Weather Bureau predicted the storm would make landfall in Cuba on Labor Day.Locals, mostly Key lime farmers, who had experience with hurricanes, though, weren't so sure. Ignorance of the real danger from a tropical hurricane. The hurricane made landfall later that night as a Category 5 storm, crossing the Florida Keys between Key West and Miami, FL. Locals warned of the impending doom, but the road workers, many of the combat veterans replied along the lines of "I've faced machine gun fire, nothing scares me," Bertelli said.Even if they had heeded the warning, though, the veterans would have had no way of evacuating. Hurricane Dorian is forecast to strike Florida as a major storm on Labor Day. The second tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and second intense hurricane of the season was the most intense Atlantic hurricane that affected the United States, and it was the first of three Category 5 hurricanes that struck the country in the 20th century ... areas affected Bahamas, Florida Keys, Big Bend, Florida Panhandle, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia),http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008007038. They were paid $30 a month, plus room and board.At the time, a two-lane road from Miami extended as far south as Lower Matecumbe Key.
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