![]() ![]() But it's already clear Ian is the deadliest storm to hit. Charlestown, R.I., lost a bit more: 160 out of 200 homes were annihilated. Some don't evacuate, despite repeated hurricane warnings, because they can't Medical examiners are still certifying storm-related deaths. As this disturbance passed off the West African coast. Westerly, a bastion of quiet old wealth, never quite regained its prestige after the Great 1938 Hurricane. The first signs of the storm can be traced back to a wind shift noted by French observers at Bilma Oasis in the Sahara Desert on September 4th. It strengthened to a hurricane on November 1, initially posing a threat to the Carolinas. The sixth tropical cyclone and fifth hurricane of the 1935 Atlantic hurricane season, it developed 227 miles (365 km) east of Bermuda. There the family stepped back on to land and back into their lives. The Yankee hurricane of 1935 was a rare Category 2 hurricane that affected the Bahamas and South Florida in November. The 1935 hurricane went on to skirt the west coast of the Florida peninsula before accelerating northeastward, reentering the Atlantic off the Virginia coastline and producing rains that topped. In all, 10 people clung to that bit of floor as it hurtled across the Sound to land in Connecticut. “We were on the water with the waves crashing over us, and part of the house still attached, one of the walls still attached to this piece of floor, and it almost acted as a sail.” “Next thing I knew, we were floating,” Moore recalled. Finally, the waves overwhelmed their own house, lifting it off its foundation. ![]() The family moved first to the second floor and finally to the third floor to stay above the storm surge, watching as house after house succumbed and neighbors were washed away. As the ocean waves began surging into the house, Catherine Moore recalls her father bracing against the front door literally trying to hold back the ocean. ![]() As the storm grew stronger, the family tried to evacuate their beachfront home, but could not. This is their story, with newly discovered photos and stories of some of the heroes of the Labor Day 1935 calamity.Perhaps the most astounding story of the storm comes from the Moore family of Westerly, R.I. About 400 veterans were left unprotected in flimsy work camps. Only the 160-ton locomotive was left upright on the tracks. The train was slammed by the storm surge soon after it reached Islamorada. It is considered the most intense hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. In September of 1938, the meteorologists at the Weather Bureau were tracking a storm from the Cape Verde Islands that bloomed into a hurricane as it moved. The hurricane ripped through the Florida Keys with winds estimated at 200 mph. The railroad remained in operation until the Labor Day hurricane in 1935. Supervisors waited too long to call for an evacuation train from Miami to move the vets out of harm's way. The railroad was finally complete in 1912 and was called the 8th wonder of the world. The hurricane that struck the Upper Florida Keys on the evening of Septemis still the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the US. But US Weather Bureau forecasters could only guess at its exact position, and their calculations were well off the mark. When it entered the Straits of Florida, however, it exploded into one of the most powerful hurricanes on record. In late August 1935, a small, stealthy tropical storm crossed the Bahamas, causing little damage. This is actual film footage taken in Islamorada in the Florida Keys of some of the damage caused by the most intense Hurricane to ever hit any part of the U. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying Florida Keys. Above is an image of the track of the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, the most powerful storm to make landfall in the United States. Here, he is telling that story to a reporter. It is considered the most intense hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. Roland Craig, namesake of Craig Key, survived the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane by clinging to the railroad tracks. The railroad was finally complete in 1912 and was called the 8th wonder of the world. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets, many of whom suffered from what is known today as post-traumatic stress disorder. In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. Using archived records, Scott explains the formation of the hurricane from its unusual beginnings in the Antilles to its destructive path through Floridas.
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