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Hurricane History Homepage
By Jerry Wilkinson
Hurricanes and the
Florida Keys
are almost synonymous to many. Of course it is not true, but hurricanes
exist, and should be a concern and understood, as well as respected.
Unlike
tornadoes and earthquakes, there is adequate warning if one is paying
reasonable
attention to the happenings around him or her. Hurricanes could even
have
too much warning time as they do change course, speeds, wind velocity,
etc., so its presence could be forgotten over the extended hurricane
warning
period. Periodic weather media news checks should be a habit during
hurricane
season, especially between mid-August through October.
This series of pages will
begin with
a general history of hurricanes, which the author suggests one reads
first
and it are listed first. From there, one's specific interests will
vary;
however, the author will list in order of recommendation. The first
five
are general Florida hurricane information. The remaining are
specifically
for the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane. The comprehensive general history
page
of the specific 1935 Hurricane is under construction, but twelve of its
future links are offered as a substitute. Numbers (1) and (2) provide a
basic understanding of that specific hurricane. The remaining will
provide
an in depth study of "reported information." Using the back arrow in
the
upper left portion of your computer screen will immediately return you
back to the previous page. Go-to-links are placed at the end of each
page
for additional navigation. A link is also provided to Hurricane Donna.
Much of this material
can be found in the Islamorada Library at MM 81.5, bayside.
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- General History of Keys Hurricanes, Click HERE.
- Anatomy of a Hurricane, Click HERE.
- Florida Keys Hurricanes Through Time, Click HERE.
- The 1935 Hurricane Click HERE.
The following twelve pages are supporting and/or
additional reading for the 1935 Hurricane:
(1) For the Weather Bureau
map of
the 1935 Hurricane, Click HERE.
(2) Map from the Miami
Daily News,
September 5, 1935, Click HERE.
(3) For Marjory Stoneman
Douglas'
description of the hurricane, Click
HERE.
(4) For the published Monthly
Weather Review, Click
HERE.
(5) For a War Department
letter summarizing
hurricane data collected in the Keys, Click
HERE.
(6) For a Florida Emergency
Relief
Administration damage report, Click
Here.
(7) For the log of the
Alligator
Reef Lighthouse, Click
HERE.
(8) For the 1935 census of the Upper
Keys,
(9) For a Florida National Guard
report, Click HERE.
(10) For portions of a U.S. Coast Guard report, Click
HERE.
(11) For the Key West Weather Bureau reports, Click
HERE.
(12) For four versions of the 1935 Hurricane
path, Click HERE.
- For a comprehensive history tour of the 1935
Hurricane through
photos, Click HERE.
- The Florida Keys Memorial, Click
HERE.
- Photos of Hurricane Donna, 1960 Click
HERE.
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