There was a whirling monster birthing somewhere in the tropical night.  It was November of 1932, much later in the year than when 'normal' storms develop.  The scale of it was frightening.  Certainly it would equal the largest storms in recorded history, and its destructive prowess grew with each passing hour.  Imagine facing this leviathan of Nature on a diminutive, 12 square mile speck of sand and rock floating in the vastness of the Carribean Sea.

[ The photo at left is of Hurricane Katrina near peak strength, Category 5, and about 100 miles from landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River. ]

As this cyclonic mass began a feeding frenzy on the warm sea surface, colummns of moisture laden air rose high into the atmosphere and began forming ominous clouds.  The fate of tiny Cayman Brac was sealed, yet no one knew it just yet.

Then things began to happen ....