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DESANTIS: "I think you can go back and find tornadoes for all of human history for sure. And especially, you know, Florida -- you know, how does this storm rate in kind of the history of storms? I think it hit with a barometric pressure of, what was it, about 950 millibars when it -- when it hit?"
UNKNWON MALE: "Yes, sir."
DESANTIS: "Which, I think if you go back to 1851, there's probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower -- the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think there have been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did. And of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960. And the most powerful hurricane on record since the 1850s in the state of Florida occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day Hurricane. Barometric pressure on that was 892 millibars. It totally wiped out the Keys. We've never seen anything like it. And that remains head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane that we've ever had in the state of Florida. The most deadly hurricane we've ever had was in 1928, the Okeechobee Hurricane, killed over 4,000 people. Fortunately, we aren't going to have anything close to that on this hurricane.”