The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926

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Miami was the fastest growing city in the nation, in the midst of a great real estate boom. Then nature intervened. At the time, the United States Weather service described the hurricane of September 17 - 20, 1926 as “probably the most destructive storm in the history of the United States” The “Great Miami Hurricane” deserves to be remembered.
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@oakenarbor2046 2 года назад

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:)

@christopherfernandez4157 2 года назад

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.

@Matterian 2 года назад

A REAL History teacher. no rewrites just honest history.

@dirtcop11 2 года назад

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.

@thomasives7560 2 года назад

-Galvestonian here, pushed out by Ike - two weeks of no-power all the way to Houston, during a very warm September. I will forever remember the selflessness and courtesy of Texans on the SE coastline, they turned a disaster into a community event! 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. Love the channel and the content, cheers!!

@Adiscretefirm 2 года назад

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.

@braxtonnelson7422 2 года назад

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!

@ghostsofpunk 2 года назад

God bless you for keeping history alive. And telling it objectively and truthfully with no agenda. It's refreshing.

@seanqpter 2 года назад

My great grandmother lived in Key West in 1926, and told me a story when I was probably 7 or 8 years old which I barely remember now. She told me about how she caught the very last train out of Key West just before this hurricane hit & destroyed the railroad bridge between Key West and Marathon. I remember her saying that she had a barometer, and when she saw the barometer steadily falling, she knew a hurricane was imminent & left immediately. She relocated to Tampa and that is where the majority of my family is based even to this day.

@luislaplume8261 2 года назад

My late grandfather saved my mother'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! Des el hijo de tu hija. Gracias!

@BlueBaron3339 2 года назад

What caught my eye was all those five-masted ships. Yes, many had metal hulls and engines. And they're not all gone, even now. Yet it gave the impression of a disaster from a much earlier time. The whole eye of the storm trap for those who don't know better reminded me of a similar danger in tsunamis when the water retreats just before the BIG wave hits.

@frank480 2 года назад

There is a cemetery in Ortona, FL, near Moore Haven, with a very disproportionate number of headstones dated September 1926. Some have the names of entire families on them.

@DawnOldham 2 года назад

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…

@suzbone 2 года назад

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 emotional and learning experience, instead of one of grief and loss.

@stephenphillip5656 2 года назад

Living in 🇬🇧, I'm eternally grateful for not having to face these tropical monsters, roaring in from the ocean. We have the cold North Atlantic waters to thank for killing off hurricanes as they track North East towards us & we get a bit of wind & some pretty heavy rainstorms.

@Jbot123 2 года назад

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

@Stammon 2 года назад

My grandfather was a Chesapeake Bay Waterman. The family has been there since 1607. He advised me; "Don't buy low land, don't live on low land."

@HarryWHill-GA 2 года назад

I love watching how you continuously rearrange the hats, shelves, and pictures on the wall behind you.

@jacobhayes4404 2 года назад

A lot of people are now saying "I wish I'd never seen Miami". Just for a reason other than hurricanes. But thank you History Guy for another great lesson.