600 people including hundreds of WWI veterans who volunteered to build
a bridge over the FL keys. After the disaster, the bridge was never
finished & stands asan unofficial monument to the fallen. With a
pressure of 892 mb, it is still one of the most intense hurricanes to
make US landfall in reorded history! To put it into perspective,
Katrina had a pressure of 920mb & Isaac had a pressure of 968mb. It
created $6 million in damage (in 1935 $$). These are pics of damage,
including the derailed train that tried unsuccesfully to rescue the
WWI veterans + the storm track...another example fury of mother nature
& the fragility of life.
