The nineteenth century opened with hurricanes Santa Rosalía and San Mateo (both in 1804) and closed in 1899 with the almost indescribable Category 4 monster San Ciriaco, plus earthquakes. Why then, are disasters severely underrepresented in the majority of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century narrative and symbolic practices? Ecoerasing nostalgic and bucolic depictions enhance love of land and bolster nationalistic pride as Puerto Rican culture increasingly embraces pro-independence and anti-colonial attitudes. Yet sometimes, like a suppressed slice of the collective unconscious, stories, images, and symbols of hurricanes blast through in a few cultural products. We explore writers from María Babiana Benítez, through foundational anthologies, to Alejandro Tapia y Rivera. We look at art from José Campeche to Francisco Oller and discuss the aestheticization of the landscape.