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2 unusual facts about 1928 Okeechobee hurricane


1928 Okeechobee hurricane

The effects of the hurricane on black migrant workers is dramatized in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

It then moved inland and merged with a low-pressure system around Toronto on the 20th.


Juan Emilio ViguiƩ

ViguiƩ's international fame continued to grow, with his documentaries about Charles Lindbergh's 1928 visit to Puerto Rico, and the devastation caused that same year by "Hurricane San Felipe Segundo" (known in the U.S. as "Okeechobee Hurricane").


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