BUT FIRST… SEPTEMBER 20, 1926 The Great Miami Hurricane left devastation in its wake across southeast Florida and the western edge of Lake Okeechobee. Two days after landfall it was homing in on Pensacola. The center of the storm arrived near the western Panhandle 100 years ago this morning. It then crept slowly to the west, finally making landfall near the Florida/Alabama line in the late afternoon. Hurricane-force winds arrived at Pensacola overnight and continued throu