The 1935 "Labor Day" hurricane that hit the Keys near Islamorada to this day is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. It had the lowest barometric pressure ever and the winds were so severe that wind measuring instruments were blown away. My mother, a native of Key West, had several family members there to celebrate the holiday and were lost, never seen again.
And don't forget the 1900 Galveston hurricane that caused between 6 and 8 thousand deaths. So, this talk today is stupid.
I visited Galveston just because I had read about the dreadful hurricane-——I have a small book about it, and also read “Isaac’s Storm” a few years back that was about Galveston.
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