1945-1949

Huh, Wikipedia's featured article of the day is on Hurricane Grace (1991).

1945

One hurricane managed to scrape the entire coast of Texas with at least TS-force winds, which is pretty impressive. Not much on Wikipedia about it, though. Another hurricane made landfall on Homestead, Florida, where Andrew made landfall. The storm damaged the Army base east of Homestead. This was the strongest hurricane for the Miami area until Andrew. (Not necessarily the worst, though.)

1946

Another year, another Florida hurricane. The storm pounded the western edge of Cuba, but weakened rapidly as it approached western Florida, in the time honored tradition of storms in the Gulf. Damage was extensive in Cuba but not in Florida.

1947

This season had a very important Florida storm, the Fort Lauderdale hurricane. It made landfall as a Cat-4 as a huge storm, with a hurricane-force wind radius of 240 miles. The storm was slow moving and caused massive amounts of rain, nearly overtopping the dikes at Lake Okechobee. (I say nearly: this was no 1928 repeat.) The storm then made landfall east of New Orleans and tracked over the city, flooding a large part of it. Wikipedia sez the storm would do $11.72 billion in damage today...I think that's far too low. This was about as mean a cyclone as ever hit the United States, especially since its track passed over important metro areas.

1948

What, another Florida hurricane. And like many Florida hurricanes, its strongest winds and worst impacts were reserved for Cuba, which has seriously been a barrier to much greater destruction in the US. Cuba is like the US's barrier island. (So is Hispaniola) The storm caused flooding around Miami but there wasn't too much damage.

1949

Florida hurricane! This one made landfall near West Palm Beach and destroyed the citrus industry again. I don't know how that industry survived this decade. Plenty more Florida storms to come too. Anyway, yeah, lots of damage. Texas hurricanes are more interesting to me, and this one tracked right over downtown Houston. The storm damaged rice crops in the area and also damaged cars for some reason.