Hurricane Florida Keys 1935

In an upcoming webinar at 4 30pm on friday july 24th award winning author and journalist willie drye recreates that fateful summer in key west from the pages of his classic book storm of the century.

Hurricane florida keys 1935. 9486 a bill for the relief of widows children and dependent parents of world war veterans who died as the result of the florida hurricane at windley island and matecumbe keys september 2 1935. Hearings before the committee on world war veterans legislation house of representatives seventy fourth congress second session on h r. Rescue workers gather at a makeshift dock near the village of islamorada florida awaiting an opportunity to cross snake creek to help victims of the labor day hurricane of 1935. The labor day hurricane of 1935 when ernest hemingway got a first hand look at the devastation of the great depression and the wrath of what is still the most powerful hurricane to make.

It had sustained winds of 185 mph and a storm surge of 18 to 20. Ten tropical cyclone developed eight of which intensified into tropical storms. After the 1935 hurricane to build a new school hugh matheson exchanged land he owned on the highway for the beach site of the destroyed school. Florida east coast railway overseas railroad relief train derailed near islamorada florida during the 1935 labor day hurricane.

The labor day hurricane of 1935 blasted into islamorada late at night on sept. The 1935 atlantic hurricane season included the labor day hurricane the most intense tropical cyclone to ever strike the united states or any landmass in the atlantic basin the season ran from june 1 through november 15 1935. The town of islamorada was obliterated. The 1935 labor day hurricane which hit the florida keys was the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the u s killing 408 people.

The florida keys 1935 hurricane brutalized the area on labor day the 1935 hurricane was a disaster of incredible magnitude. People caught in the open were blasted by sand with such force that it stripped away their clothing. The memorial was designed by the florida division of the federal art project and was constructed by the works progress administration wpa in 1937 as zone 3 project number 2217.