1666-3 Hurricane 1926 THE CARL G. FISHER PROPERTIES
MEMO TO Ifr. Fisher DATE October 21, 1926.
FROM Mr. Chase SUBJECT Storm of October 20th.
Shortly after daylight I started out this morning checking up on the
damage and have condensed this into a report to 'Falter, copy of which
I am attaching. ,
This storm blew practically all the time from the ocean and the greatest
damage seems to be along the ocean front north of the Snowden tract.
Between the Snowden property and Allison hospital five wide stretches
have cut themselves through from the ocean. These cuts are not so deep
as in the former storm but are wider. From appearances water must have
been rushed over this area during a considerable part of the storm and
about two feet of water still is coming through this morning in five
of these places. The beach will probably close these up as it did after
the Previous storm. The ocean this morning was breaking right at your
ocean front door.
Very few trees are down and I believe that those that have fallen are
all trees that have been erected since the previous storm. None of the
trees have snapped off as they did before as this storm was nothing to
be compared to the other one. This storm is v:hat the Conchs call a
"tail end" and not a hurricane as I believe we got just the outside
fringe of the storm here.
Considerable rain fell and most of the damage done was to property where
new roofs had not been entirely replaced and the same old difficulty of
French doors and French windows.
Kohlhepp and I nailed all your French doors on the top floor with battens.
Even with this one of them blew open but with very little damage as we
had placed all the furniture in the center of each room and then thrown
the rugs over the furniture.
Ne had plenty of warning this time and anyone having previous experience
in a hurricane, if they will just use their head a bit can overcome most
of the chance of receiving damage.
If the roofs on the King Cole and Montmere had been completed, our loss
would have been very slight, except in the Lincoln Annex where quite a
bit of water damage had occurred.
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