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The hurricane of 1936 destroyed Destin trees, roofs, docks and cows, but not Tyler Calhoun’s chicken coop.
“The little chicken house stood the storm,” the late Destin resident wrote in an account some years ago. “We had thought all the poultry were undoubtedly drowned, but we did not lose a one. They laid several eggs right after the blow.”
Pretty impressive, given the coop had to withstand recorded winds of 90 to 100 mph, when the storm hit on July 31, 1936. Calhoun said local estimates set the wind speed even higher.
The fifth unnamed hurricane of that year — hurricanes wouldn’t receive official names until 1950 — the storm was first observed as a weak “cyclonic circulation” south of the Bahamas, according to the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.
