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Hurricane Donna -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.Com 1960 - Hurricane Donna -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/sfl-1960-hurric... February 29, 2008 Search Go South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Web enhanced by Subscribe Today Login or register Home > News > Hurricane Headquarters Classifieds Tracking the Tropics Place an ad 1960 - Hurricane Donna ATLANTIC SATELLITE Find a job Tropical Outlook Find a car Donna batters Florida, entire U.S. East Coast Find real estate Find rental properties Satellite Maps Shopping • Atlantic Dating • Caribbean Pets • Gulf of Mexico • Florida/Bahamas ADVERTISEMENT Popular stories Most viewed Most e-mailed Weather Hurricane HQ Dolphins strike deal with 49ers guard Justin STORM TRACKING Smiley Maps and data Printable map Dolphins sign receiver who brings off-the-field E-mail Updates baggage During the storm Pines & Palms Inn after the Hurricane Donna blew through Islamorada. (Florida State Three die after car plunges 30 feet from ramp Hurricane Supplies Archives ) onto I-95 LEARN MORE Hurricane history 4.6 million Fords recalled for fire risk in engines Hurricane Andrew Sun-Sentinel S. Florida's 11 worst Article tools Ethan J. Skolnick: Free-agent dire straits: Money Hurricane science After swiping the Florida Keys and striking land near Fort Myers on Sept. 10, for nothing? Webcam 'Deadly Donna' did not travel along the usual path that storms of her E-mail Forecast by region magnitude usually take. Share More most viewed - Fort Lauderdale Print - West Palm Beach Instead of heading back to the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico, Donna - Miami Reprints ADVERTISEMENT - Other Florida cities took on the unusual distinction of being the only hurricane of record to produce Post comment Maps and graphics hurricane-force winds throughout the U.S. East Coast from Florida, the Text size: -Regional satellite Mid-Atlantic states and New England. -Tropical satellite SCREEN -Severe weather map ENCLOSURES: Can -More weather maps The hurricane's center passed through 60 miles west of Miami, sparing Broward County. This time, your enclosure stand Marine forecast/tides Broward residents only experienced 80 mile-per-hour winds as Donna's fringes passed by, causing a few up to the next -Broward, Miami-Dade trees and signs to tumble down. hurricane? -Palm Beach County -Biscayne Bay -Lake Okeechobee Unfortunately, residents in the Florida Keys -Florida coast waters More resources Related links fared worse, having to endure 13-foot -Sunburn index storm surges and 150 mile-per-hour winds. BACKUP POWER: -Pollen forecast 1960: Coconut Grove after Bridges were washed away and homes Before you buy a Complete almanac Donna Photo resembled splintered matchsticks for miles. generator, here are a The Fort Lauderdale News reported that few things you Traffic the Tampa Weather Bureau predicted should know. statewide property damage to reach $2 News Broward County billion. 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