The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane still holds the record for devastating strength

Adyson Hammock ECB Publishing, Inc. Although Hurricane Idalia recently made its way through Florida, causing mass disruption and panic among residents, this definitely wasn’t the most destructive hurricane to ever hit the state. A storm simply known as the Labor Day Hurricane continues to hold the record for lowest pressure every recorded at landfall for any hurricane in the Western Hemisphere. On Sept. 2, 1935, the storm hit the Florida Keys with peak winds of almost 200 miles per hour. Many Keys residents were WWI veterans who were working to rebuild railways to connect into the Keys after the Great Depression. Going through the Keys, the storm left a 40-mile-long path of collapsed