The Great Labor Day Storm•Lasted 13 days

August 29th-September 10th 1935

•Third Strongest Atlantic Hurricane•Areas hit: Bahamas, Florida Keys, Big Bend, Florida Panhandle, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia

Wind speed•892 millibars (third lowest pressure

on record)185 mph winds (third highest on

record)Category 5

Storm surges of 20ft

Damages•400-600 people killed• $6 million in damage $69 million today

•Transportation railroad from Keys to mainland was destroyed

Storm path

Storm Path

•Hurricane formed East of the Bahamas•Intensified and Peaked September 2 near

Craig Key•It weakened as it followed the west coast moving NE over Georgia and the Carolinas

out to Greenland on Sept. 10th