883 days ago - "There is beauty in the bellow of the blast, there is grandeur in the growling of the gale.” W. S. Gilbert’s romantic depiction takes me back to Ocean City, Maryland’s close encounter with a killer hurricane. Born in Africa’s waters Aug. 29, 1960, the disturbance quickly organized into Category 5 Hurricane “Donna.” On Sept. 9, Donna swiped the Florida Keys at Category 4, made landfall at Fort Myers, then plowed east across Florida to Daytona Beach. Thirteen people died.