When it does, we will have no excuse not to be prepared. Whether there are climatological reasons for the lengthy hurricane drought or whether it's the result of randomness, we can say with 100 percent certainty that our luck will run out. Today, by contrast, there is strong downward pressure on rates as a shortage of damaging hurricanes has contributed to a glut of capital available to backstop hurricane risk. Florida author Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote: Miami Beach was isolated in a sea of. After 2004, when four hurricanes struck Florida, and the record 2005 season that delivered three tropical storms and five hurricanes, insurance rates skyrocketed as many thought we had entered a 'new normal.' Hydrodynamic model hindcasts of the surface water and groundwater of the Everglades and the greater Miami, Florida, area were used to simulate hydrology using estimated storm surge height, wind field, and rainfall for the Great Miami Hurricane (GMH), which struck on September 18, 1926. The storm crashed into Miami Beach at about 2:00 a.m.

1926 miami hurricane track