Not to throw cold water on Phil's hopes, but there is one crucial difference between the Sea Islands Hurricane and Hurricane Hanna.  The 1893 hurricane formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and tracked for days across the ocean as a hurricane, becoming a major (category 3) hurricane four days before making landfall.  Hanna formed east northeast of Puerto Rico and has meandered westward to its current position near the Bahamas, and only yesterday strengthened enough to be considered a hurricane. 

But every hurricane is different.  Who knows what Hanna will bring ashore.  

Phil neglected to point out the the Band-rumped Storm Petrel record was from the District of Columbia.  Maryland had to wait 104 years for its first accepted record.  

Cheers, 

Rob Hilton
Silver Spring, Md.