![]() ![]() ![]() Camille crashed ashore along the Louisiana-Mississippi border in August 1969, killing more than 250 people and causing nearly $10 billion in damage in today’s dollars. Andrew, in August 1992, swept across the southern tip of Florida - also hitting the Bahamas and Louisiana - causing 65 deaths and an estimated $27 billion in damage. The most recent was Hurricane Michael, which roared onto the Florida Panhandle in October, killing at least 59 people and causing more than $25 billion in damage. Only a handful of Category 5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. The lower the pressure the more destructive the storm. ![]() To this day, the Great Hurricane, which happened in an era before storms were given names, holds the record for lowest barometric pressure of any Atlantic Ocean storm to make U.S. State officials sent a train from the Florida mainland to evacuate veterans and residents alike, but raging seas churned up by the storm swept it off the tracks, said Brad Bertelli, curator of the Florida Keys History and Discovery Center. “Who sent them down to the Florida Keys and left them there in hurricane months?” Hemingway demanded to know in the piece, published in the magazine New Masses. Many of the victims were World War I veterans working in a Depression-era program to build the highway connecting the Florida Keys - a fact that infuriated Ernest Hemingway, who lived in Key West at the time and wrote a scathing article titled “Who murdered the vets?” ![]()
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