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The Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, ... 1928: 160 260 Michael: 2018: 8 Maria: 2017: 155 250 9 ... damage from the hurricane elsewhere in the United States was minor. [4]
A 1945 report published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch estimated that approximately 5,000 migrant farm workers resided in this region at the time of the 1928 hurricane, many of whom lodged in shacks and tents. [9] A mud dike averaging only 4 ft (1.2 m) in height surrounded Lake Okeechobee prior to the 1928 hurricane. [10]
San Felipe-Okeechobee Hurricane. Year: 1928. ... Florida, but the worst damage was at Lake Okeechobee, where winds of 162 mph caused storm surges up to 9 feet. ... Hurricane Michael. Year: 2018 ...
The 1928 Atlantic hurricane season featured the Okeechobee hurricane, which was second deadliest tropical cyclone in the history of the United States. Only eight tropical cyclones developed during the season—ranking as a below-average year. Of these eight tropical systems, seven of them intensified into a tropical storm and four further ...
Destruction in Delray Beach from 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. August 7, 1928 – The first hurricane of the season moves ashore near Fort Pierce, causing moderate damage to highways, crops, and telephone lines; [33] damage is estimated at $5 million (1928 USD, $63 million 2008 USD), [34] and there were four reported casualties near Jupiter. [35]
Florida’s 1928 Okeechobee hurricane is the state’s deadliest so far, second in the nation only to the 1900 Galveston storm. The 1928 hurricane’s official death toll was 1,836, but local ...
2018: 5 Andrew: 1992: 165 270 6 "Okeechobee" 1928: 160 260 Michael: 2018: 8 Maria: 2017: 155 250 9 "Last Island" 1856: 150 240 "Indianola" 1886 "Florida Keys" 1919 "Freeport" 1932: Charley: 2004: Laura: 2020: Ida: 2021: Ian: 2022: Source: Hurricane Research Division [1] †Strength refers to maximum sustained wind speed upon striking land ...
After hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 breached those dams and drowned over 2,500 people, the Army Corps used sand, rock, gravel, shells and limestone to build better dams from 1932-1938.