[Rockingham]

The lack of evacuation of the Keys in general and of the Vets in particular was due to the poor forecast by the U.S. Weather Bureau, which did not recognize the devastating strength of the storm and wrongly forecast that it would hit Cuba instead of the Keys. In fairness to the Weather Bureau, hurricane forecasting was then in its infancy, and even today, hurricane forecasting has a residual element of uncertainty as to strength and track that can have tragic consequences.

[Moonman62]

The lack of evacuation of the Keys in general and of the Vets in particular was due to the poor forecast by the U.S. Weather Bureau, which did not recognize the devastating strength of the storm and wrongly forecast that it would hit Cuba instead of the Keys. In fairness to the Weather Bureau, hurricane forecasting was then in its infancy, and even today, hurricane forecasting has a residual element of uncertainty as to strength and track that can have tragic consequences.

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Hemingway’s point was that they shouldn’t have been there at all during the hurricane months of August, September, and October.

[klgator]

In fairness to the Weather Bureau, hurricane forecasting was then in its infancy, and even today, hurricane forecasting has a residual element of uncertainty as to strength and track that can have tragic consequences.

You might say just like climatology today?