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1928 Okeechobee hurricane photos....
1928 Okeechobee hurricane photos....
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September 23, 1928
THE NEW YORK TIMES, rotogravure section only, September 23, 1928
* Okeechobee hurricane
* San Juan, Puerto Rico
* West Palm Beach, Florida
The front page of this section only has five related photos associated with the Okeechobee hurricane. Nice for display.
Other topics (photos) throughout. Complete rotogravure section only with all 20 pages, rag edition, a few binding slits along the spine, nice condition.
wikipedia notes: The Okeechobee hurricane, or San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was a deadly hurricane that struck the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida in September of the 1928 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the second recorded hurricane to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale in the Atlantic basin after the 1924 Cuba hurricane; as of 2010, it remained the only recorded hurricane to strike Puerto Rico at Category 5 strength, and one of the ten most intense ever recorded to make landfall in the United States.
The hurricane caused devastation throughout its path. As many as 1,200 people were killed in Guadeloupe. The storm directly struck Puerto Rico at peak strength, killing at least 300 and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. In South Florida at least 2,500 were killed when a storm surge from Lake Okeechobee breached the dike surrounding the lake, flooding an area covering hundreds of square miles. In total, the hurricane killed at least 4,078 people and caused around US$100 million ($1.28 billion 2011 USD) in damages over the course of its path.
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