Remembering Miami’s Worst Hurricane a Century Later
Researchers say a similar storm today could cause more than $200 billion in losses, underscoring the hurricane’s lasting impact on building rules.
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Remembering Miami’s worst hurricane a century later
One hundred years ago this morning, residents and newcomers to America’s Playground in Miami Beach awoke to what early Miami transplant, journalist, and famed conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas described as “a sea of raving white water.”
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If the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane happened again today, it would be the most expensive hurricane disaster in the history of the United States. Modern estimates put the insured losses at $200 billion, and total losses are nominally calculated by doubling what insurance companies pay. It would be an inconceivable catastrophe.
“It was as if a terrible hammer had struck the city,” the Czech National Newspapers described the disaster that struck Miami and a large part of Florida on September 18, 1926. Initial reports spoke of up to 1,200 deaths and presented a drastic picture of a flooded and destroyed city.
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