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#1 Katrina
Find out more about the history of Hurricane Katrina, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com
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On the evening of August 19, 1969 the Mid-Atlantic’s deadliest hurricane disaster of the 20th century unfolded just 120 miles from Washington, D.C.
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Learn more about Hurricane Donna and where it affected.
#8
More about the Okeechobee Hurricane.
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The 1938 New England Hurricane (also referred to as the Great New England Hurricane and Long Island Express) was one of the deadliest and most destructive tropical cyclones to impact New England. The storm formed near the coast of Africa on September 9, becoming a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale before making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane[1] on Long Island on September 21. The hurricane was estimated to have killed 682 people,[2] damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at US$306 million ($4.7 billion in 2016).[3] Even as late as 1951, damaged trees and buildings were still seen in the affected areas.[4] It remains the most powerful and deadliest hurricane in recent New England history, eclipsed in landfall intensity perhaps only by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.
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Hurricane seasons come and go every year, and have for quite some time, without much incident. Hurricane Andrew, which made landfall in Miami-Dade 20 yea...
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The 1915 Galveston hurricane was a deadly hurricane that struck Leeward Islands, Hispaniola, Cuba and Texas, in mid August of the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season. Striking Galveston, Texas, 15 years after the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, its 21-ft (6.4-m) waves[1] were slowed by the new Galveston Seawall but changed the beach structure: on August 17, the entire 300-ft (91.5–m) beach was eroded to become an offshore sandbar, later returning partially, but never the same.[1] The 1915 storm caused a great deal of destruction in its path, leaving 275-400 people dead and $50 million (1915 USD, $921 million 2005 USD) in damage.[1]
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Find out more about the history of 1900 Galveston Hurricane, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com
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Learn more about one of the most deadly hurricanes ever.
