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1965: Hurricane Betsy crossed the Florida Keys during the early morning hours. Winds were estimated at 125 mph with gusts to 165 mph at Big Pine Key.
2004: President George Bush visited the National Hurricane Center in Miami, FL making it the first time that a Commander in Chief had visited the facility.
2011: The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee brought copious amounts of rainfall to the eastern United States. Eastern Pennsylvania was especially hard hit, where several locations received over a foot of rain (15.20" at Elizabethtown over a span of five days) and the Susquehanna River set a record stage of 32.8 feet at Bloomsburg (nearly 14 feet over flood stage).
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