Passing Parade: The Florida hurricane happened

Nelson A. Pryor: Guest Columnist This is an editorial from the Sept. 18, 1926 New York Times:  “The disaster that has befallen cities and towns of the South Florida Atlantic Coast, Pensacola on the Gulf Coast and Mobile, Ala., is in many features like the havoc wrought by the tropical storm in the Galveston region on Sept. 8-9, 1900. The maximum velocity of the wind was about the same, 120 miles an hour. As in the case of Galveston, though not so overwhelmingly, Miami was flooded from t