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 Category 5: The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane $29.95 This book contains many maps that show the southern end of Florida breaking up and drizzling into the sea in long arcs of sand spits and islands known as the Florida Keys. The southern-most islands rest on the skeletons of coral reefs. The people who live or work in the lower Keys are barely above sea level, even on placid, sunny days. When a hurricane churns through these islands, the difference between land and sea blurs. Sand burns through the chaotic air, stripping the skin off of anyone unfortunate enough to be out in the storm. Islands are overwhelmed by the hurricane's storm surge, and entire buildings are washed into the sea. People drown in their own bedrooms. In 1935, the out-of-work World War I veterans who signed up for the labor camps in the Keys didn't comprehend the way wind and water could overwhelm low-lying islands and those edifices that were built upon them. In the end, they forfeited their lives through ignorance of what this author calls the wrath of the Mayan storm god, Hurakan. Perhaps because the category five hurricane that swept through the Florida Keys on Labor Day, 1935 came only a few years before World War II, this natural disaster has not been as thoroughly documented as, say, the Galveston hurricane of 1900. Yet it was the first of only three category 5 Atlantic hurricanes to devastate our coastlines through the whole of the 20th Century. This book and William Drye's Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 go a long way toward increasing our knowledge of this devastating storm. Thomas Knowles' "Category Five: the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane" is part natural history and part political history. Readers will learn why the WW I veterans were in the Florida Keys in the first place, and also why our Government had originally encouraged settlement on these low-lying islands during the Spanish-American conflict. Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt faced the same problem as our current Commander-in-Chief, i.e. how to put veterans back to work in the midst of a bad economy. In August, 1935, 696 veterans were working in Southern Florida, the majority on a highway that would connect the various Keys. After the Labor Day Hurricane had passed through the Keys, only 435 of those veterans could be found among the living, and three out of every five of the civilian residents and tourists had also perished. At times, this book becomes a bit tedious as it rambles through the pre-hurricane history of the Keys settlers and their families. The vicissitudes of a weather bureau that had to forecast the path of a hurricane without modern tools such as radar and satellite images are also detailed. Thomas Knowles, a retired college administrator and Navy veteran who was born and raised in Key West, really comes into stride when he draws from eye-witness accounts to describe the horrors that survivors had to endure, both during and after the Labor Day Hurricane. He also reminds us that a similar hurricane could cause even more death and destruction, today. "Category Five: The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane" is a must-read for residents of the Florida Keys, and a solidly researched story of an under-reported 20th Century American disaster.  56608 10micron Canisteronly Replacement (250-595-5) Category: Fuel Filters $11.22 Item #: 250-595-5. Grade = 10 ©ÁType = Disposable Filter Element Customers also search for: Discount 56608 10micron Canisteronly Replacement, Buy 56608 10micron Canisteronly Replacement, Wholesale 56608 10micron Canisteronly Replacement, 085077566086, 595-5, Fuel Filters  JAPONESQUE ERGONOMIC MINI TWEEZER SET, 1.5 Box $29.00 The JAPONESQUE¢î Ergonomic Mini Tweezer Set is a must-have for achieving perfectly groomed brows and eliminating errant hairs with superior comfort and control. A compact version of the sleek stainless-steel originals, this set features both fine point and slant tip tweezers allowing for professional precision every time. Tweezers come in a sophisticated black case with a snap-closure.  Chef's, Wavy, Black Fibrox, 7.5 in. (40720) Category: Cook's and Chef's Knives $28.95 7.5 in. wavy edged blade made of high carbon stainless steel. Black fibrox handle.. 7.5 in. wavy edged blade made of high carbon stainless steel. Black fibrox handle. |
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