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At the center of the story are hundreds of down-and-out World War I veterans who were sent to the Keys to work on a federal construction project; a highway linking Miami and Key West. More than 300 of them would die in the hurricane of 1935. But the story of this catastrophe goes far beyond the death toll. Told from the point of view of multiple eyewitnesses including workers, business owners, and government officials, Storm of the Century is the first in-depth explanation of how the economic crisis of the Depression, political expediency, the best and worst of human nature, and the unimaginable power of the strongest hurricane in history ever to strike the United States combined to cause national tragedy in the reomote Florida Keys. When reports of a hurricane began reaching Florida in late August of 1935, Federal Administrators ignored warnings and waited until it was too late to try to get the workers out of harm's way. The political maneuvering that followed the tragedy obscured details of the event and very nearly cost Franklin Delano Roosevelt the election of 1936. Will Drye tells of the astonishing power of this once-in-a-lifetime storm and its aftermath with gripping detail.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50034401313041,"sku":"CIN0792280105G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50418322768145,"sku":"CIN0792280105VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0792280105.jpg?v=1750979599"},{"product_id":"storm-of-the-century-book-willie-drye-9781493037971","title":"Storm of the Century","description":"In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets, many of whom suffered from what is known today as post-traumatic stress disorder. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying Florida Keys. In late August 1935, a small, stealthy tropical storm crossed the Bahamas, causing little damage. When it entered the Straits of Florida, however, it exploded into one of the most powerful hurricanes on record. But US Weather Bureau forecasters could only guess at its exact position, and their calculations were well off the mark. The hurricane that struck the Upper Florida Keys on the evening of September 2, 1935 is still the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the US. Supervisors waited too long to call for an evacuation train from Miami to move the vets out of harm's way. The train was slammed by the storm surge soon after it reached Islamorada. Only the 160-ton locomotive was left upright on the tracks. About 400 veterans were left unprotected in flimsy work camps. Around 260 of them were killed. 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