Reply #7: JEEZ! Okeechobee will take a hit. Very bad.

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It's an enormous body of water. Hit by hurricane force winds, the devastation it can cause is horrific.

Zora Neale Hurston describes such a hurricane (1928 -- one of the worst in FL history) in "Their Eyes Were Watching God." Terrifying. She called it, "the day the lake moved."

"The novel's title is taken from Chapter 18, as the hurricane strikes the Everglades. Tea Cake  and Janie "sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against
crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They  seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God." (from a Palm Beach website)