Florida Keys Hurricane of 1935

The Category 5 Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 is the strongest storm ever to make landfall in the United States. It killed at least 485 people, including at least 257 military veterans who had been deployed to the Florida Keys to construct the bridge linking the string of islands. Two weeks later, the leftist journal The New Masses ...

And then Hemingway – and others – went on to perform heroic acts during the Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, says author Les Standiford. One of only two pre-Irma storms classified as Category 5 to hit Florida in its history, the Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 produced what is still the lowest ...

That's because Hurricane Irma reminds Setzer of the Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935; the most intense hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. The Labor Day Hurricane was the first of three Category 5 hurricanes to strike the United States at that intensity during the 20th century. The other two are 1969's ...

How one mistake led to a harrowing race to save hundreds of men trapped in the Florida Keys. .... The winds of the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane may have reached 200 miles per hour at times — more than enough to slice the roof and second story off the Hotel Matecumbe in the village of Islamorada on ...

The Florida Keys has a long history of being struck by hurricanes. But none have come close to the death and destruction levied by the infamous Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, one of the most intense to have ever struck the U.S.. With winds of over 180 miles per hour, three ships were grounded and 11 cars ...

The only other Category 5 hurricanes to hit the U.S. since the beginning of the 20th century were the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, which raked the Florida Keys, and Hurricane Camille, which hit Mississippi and Louisiana in 1969. Category 5 storms don't typically stay at that strength for extended periods of ...