The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926

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  @braxtonnelson7422 · 5 years ago

  Even if no pirates were actually involved in the story, this master story-teller can still raise the hackles on the back of your neck with his marvelous talent... History can indeed be remembered when someone takes what could be a dry, lifeless story and brings it to life in a way that demands to be remembered!  Love ya, History Guy!  Keep up the good work!

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  @dirtcop11 · 5 years ago

  I will be 70 in a little over a month, the improvements in weather forecasting and tracking storms that have occurred in my lifetime are amazing.  Because of the space program, we can now track hurricanes as they form off the west coast of Africa and can estimate, accurately, when and where they will make landfall.  We are still learning more about those storms and that will probably never end.  The weather has so many variables that it boggles my mind.

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  @aDiscreteFirm · 5 years ago

  Also, the bird mascot the University uses is not an anorexic chicken as many assume, it is an ibis, a native bird that has a reputation for being the last to leave before the storm hits and the first to return to their nests, so they are an accurate prediction of the beginning and end of bad weather.

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  @christopherfernandez4157 · 5 years ago

  I grew up in Miami and every time a storm was coming my grandmother would talk about how her house survived the ‘26 hurricane so it would survive this one too.

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  @oakenarbor2046 · 5 years ago

  73 years in this idyllic place, punctuated with moments of terror, watching building codes continue to miss the mark and new comers never reading the fine print. When the big blows come,  folks still thank us old salts for our generators, chainsaws, field dressings and transportation contraptions that somehow just work when needed. There is a reason Miami Area provides some of the best trained disaster rescue and recovery  teams in the world. Welcome to the River of Grass. Oh, and don't forget to tip your wait staff:)

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  @skenzyme81 · 5 years ago

  “I wish we had never seen Miami.”<br><br>Many such cases.

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  @thomasives7560 · 5 years ago

  -Galvestonian here, pushed out by Ike - two weeks of no-power all the way to Houston, during a very warm September. &nbsp;I will forever remember the selflessness and courtesy of Texans on the SE coastline, they turned a disaster into a community event! &nbsp;The history of great storms like Carla and Katrina should be remembered, if not as a warning, but as a lesson that people rebuild and recover from the very worst of times, and the goodness of people endures. &nbsp;Love the channel and the content, cheers!!

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  @luislaplume8261 · 5 years ago

  My late grandfather saved my mother&apos;s life when it hit Havana,Cuba earlier , he took her upstairs from the flooding river. She was a baby at that time. Thank you grandfather! &nbsp;Des el hijo de tu hija. Gracias!

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  @suzbone · 5 years ago

  Katrina survivor from South Mississippi here; the eye passed directly over us about 40 miles north of Gulfport. The destruction was insane... finding a path home in my car that evening was like being on the surface of another planet. The destruction was so severe and so widespread that I was HAPPY that my roof only got a little damage, and grateful I had access to water at our local creek. We were way out in the county outside of any township so it was a month before we got power back. The heat and humidity and mosquitoes were AWFUL, but I knew how fortunate I was compared to so many others. Gratitude seriously got me through it. I got to have that time as a powerful &nbsp;emotional and learning experience, instead of one of grief and loss.

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  @DawnOldham · 5 years ago (edited)

  I’m a Floridian and my experience with our hurricanes came in 2004 when three crossed through Orlando. We experienced flooding down our walls and other damage that was in the tens of thousands of dollars, BUT nothing like the people who were directly hit. I’m so grateful that we understand that when things get quiet that we are in the eerie eye of the storm. Of course, even better is that we can track storms for days and make “just in case” plans. You either leave early and risk a wasted trip or you leave when you and everyone else KNOWS it’s time to go. Then you all sit, jammed together on the turnpike, (possibly with four young children and 5 bearded dragons), trying to exit our long, narrow state. The exit signs begin to have signs that say, “no gas”. Oh dear. For those in the direct path, my heart goes out to ALL of you and what you lost and suffered through. It’s not something we see that often, but you just never know when…

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  @briangoldy8784 · 5 years ago

  Tampa, Resident. &nbsp;Hurricane Irma in 2017.......what a beast. No where to Hide, Pray an hope. .

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  @Jbot123 · 5 years ago

  I&apos;ve been outside during the eye of a hurricane. &nbsp;It is truly an awe-inspiring experience. &nbsp;Just be sure to get back into cover before the back side comes through.

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