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HURRICANE OVERVIEW
Deane and Chris hope you find these shots of Florida storms through history, educational and interesting.
500 years of hurricanes
Hurricane - 1495 to 1800
Hurricanes played an important role during the European exploration and colonization of the Americas. New settlements were established, battles were lost and geography was changed by these monster storms.
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The Great Colonial Hurricane hit New England in August 1635,
with winds of 130 mph, snapping pine trees like pick-up sticks and blowing houses into oblivion.The storm surge was 21 feet high at its crest, engulfing victims as they desperately scurried for higher ground.
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Hurricane - the 1800s
Scientists began to understand hurricanes during the 1800s, and forecasters were able to issue warnings as storms approached. Despite this growing knowledge, hurricanes continued to cause incredible destruction throughout the century.
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Hurricane - 1900 to 1950
The most intense and the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history occurred during this period and forecasters began to understand the danger of flooding and storm surge. Beginning in 1893 and lasting until about 1920 America had the most powerful hurricanes it has ever had. Hurricanes of today do not compare.
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Hurricane - 1950 to 1990
Satellites, computer models and improved transportation ushered in the modern era of hurricane forecasting.
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Hurricane - 1990 to today
Despite improvements in forecasting, hurricanes continued to cause death and destruction after the 1990s. In 1992, Hurricane Andrew caused $26.5 billion in damage when it hit South Florida. Then in 1998, Hurricane Mitch killed over 11,000 people in Central America -- the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since 1780. Then in 2004 in a 34 day period Charlie, Francis Ivan an Jeane caused $58 billion in damage. Finally in 2005 Katrina caused $33 billion in damage.
Florid'a worst hurricanes
1919 Key West
Many lost at sea
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Key West was hit by the most powerful hurricane in its history on Sept. 10, 1919. It was the only hurricane to form in the Atlantic that year. The storm killed more than 800 people before it was done -- the exact total will never be known. |
More than 500 were lost on ten ships that either sunk or were reported missing. The steamer Valbanera was found between Key West and the Dry Tortugas sunk with 488 aboard, according to Historical Preservation Society of the Upper Keys. All were lost.
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1926 Miami
The blow that broke Florida's real estate boom
The 1926 storm was described by the U.S. Weather Bureau in Miami as "probably the most destructive hurricane ever to strike the United States." It hit Fort Lauderdale, Dania, Hollywood, Hallandale and Miami. The death toll is estimated to be from 325 to perhaps as many as 800. No storm in previous history had done as much property damage.
1928 Okeechobee
The night thousands died
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When the hurricane roared ashore at Palm Beach September 16, 1928, many coastal residents were prepared. But inland, at Lake Okeechobee, few conceived the disaster that was brewing. The storm struck first in Puerto Rico, killing 1,000 people, then hit Florida with 125 mph winds. Forty miles west of the coast, rain filled Lake Okeechobee to the brim and the dikes crumbled. Water rushed onto the swampy farmland, and homes and people were swept away. Between 2,000 and 3,000 people perished.
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1935 Keys
Most intense hurricane to ever strike US
The Labor Day storm was a category 5 hurricane that killed 408 people in the Florida Keys. People caught in the open were blasted by sand with such force that it stripped away their clothing.
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1960 Hurricane Donna
Donna batters Florida, entire U.S. East Coast
After swiping the Florida Keys and striking land near Fort Myers on Sept. 10, 'Deadly Donna' did not travel along the usual path that storms of her magnitude usually take, but went clear to Canada as a hurricane all the way - the only storm to ever do this.
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1964 Hurricane Cleo
The day the News didn't publish
Hurricane Cleo blasted Key Biscayne and then moved north along the state's coastline, following State Road 7 and passing over Miami, Opa-locka, West Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale. The hurricane caused massive flooding, structural damage and destruction of the citrus crop. It also prevented the Fort Lauderdale News from publishing -- for the only time in its history.
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1964 Hurricane Betsy
Bad Betsy changed direction
Hurricane Betsy was building strength; it looked like it was aiming for South Carolina, posing no threat to South Florida. But on Saturday, Sept. 4, the storm whirled to a stop, about 350 miles east of Jacksonville. When Betsy started moving again on Sunday, she had changed directions. The storm plowed through the Bahamas Monday night, then mauled South Florida a day later.
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1992 Hurricane Andrew
A 'modern-day apocalypse'
For 27 years, South Florida had been spared a severe hurricane. Then Andrew arrived, the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history. Andrew wrecked more property than Hugo, Agnes and Betsy combined, with damages of $26.5 billion. Twenty-three died.
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2004 Hurricane Charlie
Made a suprise landing
As the governor was on TV odering the evacuation of Tampe Bay area and people were going to Orlando, Charlie made a right turn and was in Charlotte county in a couple of hours. Just as people from Tampa were getting settled into all of Orlando's 115,000 hotel rooms, Charlie arrived in Orlando. This storm hit land at the Gulf as almost a cat 5 and when it got to Daytona at Chris and Deane's home on the Atlantic ocean, it was still a cat 3 (to give you some perspective Katrina was a cat 3).
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2004 Hurricane Francis
The size of Texas
Hurricane Frances, a sluggish and super-sized storm, may leave as its legacy a singular image: The entire state of Florida, 435 miles from Tallahassee to Key West, enveloped in rain and wind and not visible from space. Francis came to Daytona to bust up what ever things had been repaired from Charlie's destruction, including a visit to Chris and Deane.
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2004 Hurricane Ivan/Jeanne
The storm with two names
Hurricane Ivan hit the Florida panhandle as a near cat 5 with great devastation, bring down part of the Interstate 10 bridge connecting Florida and Alabama and toppling skyscrapers, with many assumed dead whose bodies were never found. It then moved North and stopped dead for 2 days over the Mountains of Tennessee - North Caorolina with wind at Chris and Deane's home of 130 mph and dumping feet of rain. Some schools in the area were closed from September 2004 until December 2004.
Then Ivan went to the outer banks of North Carolina and turned south. It made its way straight back to Florida. I guess he wanted to extend his vacation by returning to Florida. Then in one of those very complicatd political decisions, the storm was assigned a new name of Jeanne. She came straight to Daytona Beach to destroy Chris and Deane's swimmimg pool.
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2004 Hurricane Wilma
Hammered
Hurricane Wilma was the most intense hurricane ever recorded at 882 millibars Barametric pressure, ahead of 1988 Gilbert at 888 milibars and the Labor Day 1935 hurricane at 892 millibars. It clobbered South West Florida on Monday, October 24, 2005, with surprising strength, ( a strong cat 3 ) leaving the entire region damaged, dark and startled by the ferocity of a storm that many hadn't taken seriously enough. Then it crossed the state to the Atlantic, turned north west, made land fall again as a stronger storm than it was at Naples. It destroyed skyscrapers which in 2007 still have not been rebuilt because of legal battles over, were the skyscrapers 49% or 51% ruined.
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