<P> Although the railroads lifted the embargo in May 1926, the boom nevertheless fizzled out . Disaster then followed in the shape of the September 1926 Miami Hurricane, which drove many developers into bankruptcy . The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and the Wall Street Crash of 1929 continued the catastrophic downward economic trend, and the Florida land boom was officially over as the Great Depression began . The depression and the devastating arrival of the Mediterranean fruit fly a year later destroyed both the tourist and citrus industries upon which Florida depended . In a few years, an idyllic tropical paradise had been transformed into a bleak humid remote area with few economic prospects . Florida's economy would not recover until World War II . </P> <P> The event served as the backdrop for the 2014 video game A Golden Wake . </P>

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