Another excerpt from Mrs. Tinney's letter about Pompano in 1914:

This used to be a great storm center and after the great storm of 1907, when it blew down the houses and very few [were] left except the F.E.C. depot, and most of the trees were swept away leaving our country bare and cold-looking.

We have missed the storm. Beautiful spruce trees now cover the bare places and the blown-down houses have been replaced by better ones. For several years the people would not build a two-story house, and would put long poles all around their houses, for fear of the return of the storm. But for the past two years they have removed their props and begun to raise their houses.

The 1907 storm was not a hurricane, but rather a tropical storm with winds of about 40 mile per hours. It's questionable whether it would have caused that much damage (and long-lasting memories) in Pompano. Perhaps Mrs. Tinney was referring to a category 3 hurricane that hit South Florida in October 1906, which would have produced winds of up to 120 mile per hour. Earlier that year, in June 1906, a category 1 hurricane (80 mph winds) had crossed South Florida, undoubtedly weakening structures and trees.