Thousands fled their homes in low‐lying coastal areas in response to evacuation orders. “We begged with them to move,” said Susan Carr, a police dispatcher in contact with the beach communities. North of Palm Beach, however, in the counties of Martin, St. Lucie and Brevard, sheriff's deputies re ported heavy damage. The Florida authorities reported five deaths related to the storm, including two men who suffered heart attacks while shuttering their homes, one killed when his car overturned on rain‐swept Interstate 95, and another electrocuted when his sailboat mast hit a power line as he towed the boat out of the Keys. The National Hurricane Center extended its hurricane warning northward to Charleston, S.C., and its hurricane watch to Cane Hatteras. In many cases, those forced out of this city and nearby communities had come here only Sunday from Miami, the landfall predicted for the hurricane that night. N. C. As it passed Daytona Beach shortly after midnight, the leading edge of the storm was generating hurricane force winds, heavy squalls and possible tornadoes, It was moving at about 10 miles an hour. The hurricane was spanning a 220‐mile stretch of coastline, and evacuations and other emergency preparations were ordered in northern Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. On the afternoon of the 2nd, 1st of September, then crossed the eastern tip of Cuba on its way to moved by to the south. Hurricane Center. There, a tornado associated with the hurricane ripped the roof and rear wall from the 18‐unit Opus 21 condominium, sucking furniture and appliances from the building. On the 31st, the hurricane struck the Domincan Republic west of Winds of 75 to 90 miles an hour struck the Melbourne area, 40 miles south of here, this afternoon. landfall was made on Georgia on the About 4 P.M., Gov. moved off the coast of Africa on the 22nd of August, becoming atropical depression southwest of the Cape. Bob Graham ordered the evacuation of sections of Volusia, Flagler and St. Johns Counties north of here. Description: This map created by FCIT shows the track of hurricane David in 1979. by the National Climatic Data Center. There were unconfirmed reports of looting in Satellite Beach, and the police there were reportedly arresting anyone without emergency credentials. provided Weather Underground provides tracking maps, 5-day forecasts, computer models, satellite imagery and detailed storm statistics for tracking and forecasting Major Hurricane David Tracker. A 71‐yearold woman was killed by a van as she crossed a Fort Lauderdale street, carrying groceries to a hurricane shelter. Florida. The authorities here complained that some beach residents were ignoring evacuation orders. The legend shows the different categories of hurricanes as follows: Cat 5 (dark red), Cat 4 (red), Cat 3 (orange), Cat 2 (yellow), Cat 1 (green), tropical storm (teal), tropical depression (blue), and lower category (purple). Palm Beach moving back offshore near New Smyrna Beach. “They are just laughing at us.”, As the weather worsened, however, some of those who planned to stay behind had a change of heart.
HURRICANE DAVID Hurricane David was a monster hurricane for the Caribbean but was much less intense for the United States.

However, torrential precipitation accounted for most of the damage, as the passage of Hurricane David less than a week earlier saturated soils, priming the area for floods induced by the passage of … A spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the latest information he had indicated that the storm would pose no serious threat to the Kennedy Space Center. But because of evacuation efforts in Brevard that began shortly after daylight yesterday, there apparently were few, if any, injuries. The rainfall graphics below use data TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. By the This map also shows county boundaries, interstate roads, and some city names. David had seemed to be aimed to make landfall in either Dade or Broward counties but just hours before impact swerved to the right and came ashore at West Palm Beach. Damage was reported moderate south of Palm Beach. “First they refused to leave,” said Lieut. There were no immediate reports of deaths in Florida directly attributable to the storm. Verde Islands on the 25th and a tropical storm on the 26th midway A final Also, the symbols show whether it is a hurricane, tropical storm or other storm category along the track. supplied by the National Climatic Data Center Tens of thousands of evacuees returned to their homes in the Miami area yesterday. a category 5 hurricane south of Puerto Rico. is a track of the storm, created by the National The hardest hit area appeared to be South Melbourne Beach, in Brevard County. In Daytona Beach, the popular auto racing center, and other Volusia County beach towns, the Civil Defense moved 25,000 people across the Intracoastal Waterway to shelters set up in schools on the mainland. Hurricane Frederic September 12, 1979 .
TITUSVILLE, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 4 —Hurricane David left a path of felled trees, downed power lines and heavily damaged buildings, bridges and cars along Florida's Atlantic coast as it continued rumbling northward early today. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.