Reply #38: I remember David

[RagingInMiami]

I was 11 years old. That was the first time we ever boarded up for a hurricane. And it turned out to be a false alarm. Of course, 1980 proved to be a very turbulent year for Miami and it had nothing to do with hurricanes (riots, immigration, cocaine).

But if you look at history, you will see that hurricanes nail us every four decades or so.

There was Betsy in the 1960s, then there was the 1926 unnamed hurricane. That fucked things up pretty bad and Miami was hardly the city it is today. And that was followed by several other hurricanes throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s, including one that killed a lot of workers building the seven-mile bridge in the Keys during the early 1930s.