The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane caused levees to break and killed over 4000 people. You can try to control nature, but it’s a fool’s errand. Humans survive by adapting, not by changing nature.
The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane is the 2nd most fatal hurricane in US history. Galveston was the worst.
There were so many bodies scattered south of the lake they could not collect and bury them in time and had to resort to mass funeral pyres.