Mirador, isn't it called El cicl?n de San Zen?n because it happened around that saint's day? Storms were not named back them, I don't think.
Also, and you may ask your dad, but I believe they didn't have advance warning then, which may have contributed to more deaths.
Was that storm which arraz? con to' and completely covered La Matica in Boca Chica and killed all the animals in the zoo there?
True, storms were then named for the saint's day. The only warning system was provided by those lucky few who possessed barometers in their homes, powered by a mechanism made with a cat gut which shrank as the atmospheric pressure dropped, moving a clock hand (You've probably seen them in museums). I read somewhere that the cicl?n San Ze?n was clocked at 933 mbars....
Yes, there was a zoo in La Matica island, which today is not even a shadow of it's former size. If you want to see what Boca Chica looked like before development, go to Caobita beach (10 kilometers south of the town of Barreras, Azua, on the foothills of Loma del Curro). Actually, Caobita is about 10 times the size of Boca Chica, and it is usually deserted, except for a few visitors from Azua on weekends, and some local fishermen from Los Negros and Barreras, Azua.