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Cape San Blas was home to a Confederate saltworks where 150 US bushels (5.3 m 3) of salt a day were processed by evaporation of seawater. This halted in 1862, when a landing party from the Union ship, the USS Kingfisher, destroyed the saltworks. Cape San Blas has had four lighthouses. The first, built in 1847, collapsed during a gale on August ...
The main access road to Cape San Blas was shredded into asphalt sheets. [102] Stretches of US 98 were washed out along the coast. [59] A thousand homes were destroyed by coastal flooding in Port St. Joe and every building sustained damage. [78] [103] Forty homes were later demolished as their structural integrity declined. Many stores along the ...
August 15 – Tropical Storm Fred – Fred reached its peak intensity as a strong tropical storm with winds of 65 mph (105 km/h) at 18:00 UTC on August 16 shortly before making landfall a few miles southeast of Mexico Beach near Cape San Blas, Florida at a similar intensity around an hour later at 19:15 UTC. [196] [197]
A view shows damage from Hurricane Helene in Perry, Florida, U.S., September 27, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello A drone view shows a damaged roof amid damage from Hurricane Helene in Perry, Florida, U ...
Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 9 as a Category 3 storm. On the other side of the coast, Hurricane Milton had spawned tropical tornadoes, destroying ...
Here is an updated list of organizations working on hurricane relief and how Kentucky residents can help. Hurricane Milton has already caused damage in Florida. Here are more ways Kentuckians can ...
Property damage directly related to Hurricane Matthew reached at least $1.173 billion across Florida [40] [41] with an additional $318.5 million incurred to the power grid, [42] for a damage total of at least $1.492 billion. By March 2017, more than 119,000 property damage claims were filed, with Brevard, Duval, Flagler, St. Johns, and Volusia ...
The most-intense hurricane on record is Wilma in 2005, followed by Gilbert in 1988, the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, and Rita in 2005. (Compiled by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Frank McGurty and Rod ...