During the night of Labor Day, September 2, 1935, the hurricane made landfall and crossed the Florida Keys before curving northward up the west coast of Florida, leaving a 40-mile wide path of destruction in its wake. It was the strongest storm in United States history at the time of landfall, and set a national record for the lowest barometric sea-level pressure. Because of forecasting errors by the U.S. Weather Bureau, there was insufficient time for evacuation; many people did not leave the Keys, resulting in hundreds of deaths. This large stone…
