Throughout the play Hamilton mentions a Hurricane that he witnessed and wrote about in the Caribbean, but it is never revealed what Hurricane this was or when this happened. After doing some research I found that the Hurricane he mentions is the Great Hurricane of 1772. The Hurricane was very large and is reported have hit Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Mobile, Alabama, New Orleans and Louisiana between the August 28th and September 5. The Hurricane was also very power as he references during some of the songs with it destroying crops and causing mass devastation destroying wharves in Pensacola and cutting new channels in Grand-Gosier, Haiti and Brenton Isles. As for the writing his way out I was able to find a quote from one of his letters to his father when he was 15 though the play says he is 17,
"... It began about dusk, at north, and raged very violently till ten o'clock. Then ensued a sudden and unexpected interval which lasted about an hour. Meanwhile the wind was shifting round to the south west point , from whence it returned with redoubled fury and continued till nearly three in the morning. Good God! what horror and destruction - it's impossible for me to describe - or you to form any idea of it. It seemed as if a total dissolution of nature was taking place. The roaring of the sea and wind - fiery meteors flying about in the air - the prodigious glare of almost perpetual lightning - the crash of falling houses - and the ear-piercing shrieks of the distressed were sufficient to strike astonishment into Angels. A great part of the buildings throughout the island are leveled to the ground - almost all the rest very much shattered - several persons killed and numbers utterly ruined - whole families wandering about the streets, unknowing where to find a place of shelter - the sick exposed to the keenness of water and air - without a bed to lie upon - or a dry covering to their bodies - and our harbors entirely bare. In a word, misery, in its most hideous shapes, spread over the whole face of the country ...". This letter describes the sheer destruction of the storm especially from the eyes of someone who lived in that time where there were no warnings or protection. I feel that Miranda should have inserted one of these letters into the play as it would shows just how bad his situation was, but what about you guys do you think he should have or do you think it would have negatively affected the play? 





http://www.poetpatriot.com/timeline/tmlndishurricanes-bc-1800.htm