Nature Can't Be Fixed

​On September 16, 1928, a monstrous Category 5 hurricane struck Palm Beach, Florida, with winds exceeding 160 mph, flattening homes and uprooting lives. The real nightmare came when the storm pushed a massive surge into Lake Okeechobee, creating a 20-foot wall of water that rushed across the Glades. Entire communities, like Belle Glade and South Bay, were swept away while people slept. More than 2,500 lives were lost, mostly Black migrant farm workers, buried in graves with no names recorded and no headlines. It remains the second-deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, yet outside Florida, few know it happened. Today, the Herbert Hoover Dike surrounds Lake Okeechobee to prevent such a disaster from happening again, but the scars from 1928 still haunt the lake’s edge. History doesn’t always make the textbooks.