The Miami News from Miami, Florida • 110

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WirraatT Witlii 2 Aecancf ttrt Intill suffered by the Rkbmond air bast where three hangars burned, 366 destroyed. Abote are rainsoked remains of a naval warehouse. 1 IVorst damage of 1945 storm was airplane and 25 bSg hlimps were 4 47" 1 b. zmnvEir MARINE INSTRUMENTS 628 S.W. 2nd Ave.

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No into lr.i.'Kons. This oo of the op job was in progress. By 7 p.m. all communications south had failed. The Indian village at Musa isle was under water.

At Northwest 19th Avenue, 1,000 feet from Miami River, residents reported water had reached the second steps of their homes. At 7:20 river water was backing onto the frtont steps of a home at 130 S. W. Fifth two blocks from the river. The barometer hit its day's low: 29.24 inches.

The Coast Guard vessel repair thop at the mouth of Miami River was awash. Coast Guard headquarters in the duPont building were besieged by calls for rescue from people whose homes were ab-out to be flooded by the rising liver. At 8:20 m. all but two city bridges were under water and impassable, The two operating bridges were the S. E.

SeconJ Ave. "and Southwest First St. The River waters began to recede at 9 p.m. There was no dam-flee reported to either small boats which had sought haven in the River and its tributaries nor to larger boats which had remained at their berths. A concrete barge, however, moored in the slip at The foot of Southeast Sixth broke in two and damaged the old wooden pier to which it was attached.

Generally, industry ia the cky heeded -the storm warnings and damage was light. Power failures handicupped various parta of the city but all in all Miami withstood th hurricane reasonably well. But when the damage suffered by Miami's neighbors the aotith is added, plug the disaster of the Richmond Air Base, the 1945 hurricane must go down a one of the most financially destructive storms in our history. FLORIDA UVlMG out the storm. Hialeah ttored 25,000 barrels tof water in an emergency tank 120 feet high.

Dawn broke Saturday morning, gray and gloomy. Palm trees in Bayfront Park swayed back and forth as the winds whipped them. Businessmen hurriedly boarded their windows. By 8 a.m. winds had reached a velocity cf 24 miles per hour.

At noon the wind was up to 55 iiles per hour. The hurricane flags in front tf the Navy recreation center were ripped from their Staff and went twisting across Biscayne Boulevard. At 1 p.m. power was off in Coral Gables. The winds grew in intensity.

By 2 r.m. a of 56 m.p.h. was recorded. Flags at the weather bureau went sai irg into the inds. By 2:20 p.m.

the wind reached full gale strength, 62 m.p.h. At 3 o'clock the wind receded slightly, to 61 m.p.h. and Miami Transit busses still were running despite spray from the bay cascading across Biscay ne The storm reached hurricane force at 3:32 as the winds hit a velocity of 75 m.p.h. At 5 p.m. Safety Director Dan Rosenfelder ordered the causeways closed to traffic.

Tbia included the MacAr-thur Causeway and Venetian Way and the 79th Street Causeway. Visibility, which had been as high as a mile and a half was reduced to 2ero by 6 p.m. At 6:32 wind jumped to 99 m.p.h The Ked Crosa reported that 25,000 persons had sought shelter in public buildings and schools provided with emergency stores. Some of 60 shelters reported a shortage of food. Many resident? had failed to bring one meal with them, as instructed.

(Cootinued from page 27) helped the South DaJe area make a comeback.) What about Miami? The damage was relatively light Eighteen hours of driving rain, flood waters and winds as high as 100 miles per hour wrought less havoc than expected. One death was repor'ed, a chief engineer of a two-malted schooner which was bound for Miami from the Bahamas. The ship went aground at 96th street and Collins Avenue. At Jackson Memorial hospital only 12 people reported for was no great damage to. the homes of the area.

Trees and shrubberies Took, the worst beating. The lack' of electrical power was the most inconenient circumstance of the ttorm and its aftermath. The difference in damage suffered between the 1945 hurricane and the big blows of 1926 and 1935, was due to the precautions taken before the 1945 storm arrived. In 1926 and 1935 the tremendous property loss and death rate were the result of ienorance and lack of warning. Hundreds of lives were needlessly lot.

In addition to better preparedness in 1945, the winds and whter did not reach the velocity of the previous two storms. Chronologically, the s'lorm took this path: Friday night, at 11:30, a rata! squad fell on the downtown sec-' tron. Winds of 45 miles per hour "continued for the short time, then' a slow, all-night rain took over. At 2 a.m. Air Transport Command's Miami Army Air Fiekl was evacuated bv its 4,000 military personnel.

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