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  • The Worst Hurricane You Never Heard Of

    The Worst Hurricane You Never Heard Of

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    The South Florida Hurricane happened in September 1928. Calvin Coolidge was the occupant of the Oval Office. The weather bureau had been working at forecasting dangerous storms for more than fifty years, but their most useful tools were that of educated observation and data comparison to the statistics of past events. “Accurate” was hardly part…

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Recently space travel has been in the news and the two events were financed by men who made their fortunes in ways other than transportation. There is an adage that “there is nothing new under the sun.” The Pickwick Nite Coach of the 1930s was every bit as exciting and the man who paid the bills was an electrician.

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