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Interesting.

I don't know what if what he is referring to as "colored town" is an actual city, but I do know that the area west of Jupiter city limits (between Jupiter and the area known as Jupiter Farms) was the area known as "colored town" when I moved there in the 1960's and it was called that because blacks were not allowed to live within city limits. If you go there today you will still see a majority of blacks living out past Limestone Road, just east of I95. And also at the time we moved there, it was on the Jupiter City Charter that blacks were not allowed to live in City limits, and they didn't. That was 1969. I guarantee that law is still on the books. Carlin White was mayor when we moved there and he lived down the street from us. When my mom had some co workers (black teachers) from Suncoast High over for dinner one night, he came over after they left and asked us to leave, which we didn't. And we were the scorn of the neighborhood, but our closest friends were blacks, not many whites.

All this to say I think the story was right about this hurricane being ignored largely because so few whites died.

I don't know about where you live, but here in Daytona the last areas to get power restored, debris picked up and any help are the poorer areas, mainly populated by minorities. And it makes no difference that we have a black mayor. She is bought by land developers and special interest groups, anyhow. Sad situation. What'd you think of it, if you got to watch it?

Red Blooded - darn - I missed the show as I was out last night, but thanks for the ping, anyway. That is a sad situation you describe. Remember "The Tree" in Jupiter? I grew up in PBG and don't remember any such situation, but then again, there were really no blacks in our neighborhood at that time either (1968). They all lived in Riviera Beach, which is still predominantly Afro-American today.

I don't know if the 1928 storm was ignored, although maybe it was in the early days.

I've known about it for many years, just read about it during the course of normal reading about hurricanes, have long known it was one of the deadliest ever.

After Andrew here in Miami, I don't think it was necessarly the poorer areas that got power restored last, rather it was the most devastated areas, because those took more extensive repair.
I even remember hearing some controversy about just because some areas had money, it didn't mean they weren't entitled to have services restored, too.