The Storm Council keeps a record. Each book below follows a different storm, a different coast, a different century — and the same entity, watching the Atlantic and Gulf basin reshape the communities built along it.
Miami 1926 — Storm and Speculation
A Category 4 hurricane strikes a city built on the promise that the future would keep paying for the past. Thirty-seven chapters following the Florida land boom to its breaking point in September 1926.Art of Storm
A coastal community faces the 1900 Galveston hurricane — the deadliest natural disaster in American history — in twelve chapters framed by the words of Sun Tzu.Okeechobee 1928 — The Lake and the Levee
A hurricane crosses the Florida peninsula and drives Lake Okeechobee through the earthen dike protecting its south shore. Thirty-seven chapters plus a Prologue following the migrant labor camps of the muck plain to the flood of September 1928.Labor Day 1935 — The Last Train to the Keys
A Category 5 hurricane crosses the Florida Keys and destroys the Overseas Railroad, killing hundreds of World War I veterans in emergency relief camps. A Prologue and thirty-nine chapters following the rescue train’s race against a holiday-slowed chain of command to the storm of September 1935.