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Hurricane Andrew was a compact, but very powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that struck the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana in August 1992. It was the most destructive hurricane to ever hit Florida in terms of structures damaged or destroyed, and remained the costliest in financial terms until Hurricane Irma surpassed it 25 years later.
Costs to repair damage from Helene, which first hit Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Sept. 26, are estimated to surpass $30 billion. On Saturday, the USA TODAY Network analysis of Helene ...
The twelfth tropical cyclone, fifth named storm, second hurricane, and only major hurricane to develop during the below-average 1987 Atlantic hurricane season, Emily formed out of a tropical disturbance that moved off the west coast of Africa on September 20, the storm quickly attained hurricane status before undergoing rapid intensification ...
Hurricane Emily in 1993 caused record flooding in the Outer Banks of North Carolina while remaining just offshore. The fifth named storm and the first yet strongest hurricane of the year's hurricane season , Emily developed from a tropical wave northeast of the Lesser Antilles on August 22, 1993.
The Palmetto State, data shows, has never been hit with a Category 5 hurricane. No. 4: North Carolina Just north in the Tar Heel State, North Carolina saw 58 hurricanes (seven being a Category 3 ...
Hurricane Andrew all but destroyed parts of South Miami-Dade 30 years ago. ‘I saw things that defied physics.’ What it was like to survive Hurricane Andrew in Miami
This is a list of all known or suspected Atlantic hurricanes up to 1599. Although most storms likely went unrecorded, and many records have been lost, recollections of hurricane occurrences survive from some sufficiently populated coastal areas, and rarely, ships at sea that survived the tempests.
A set of triplets say they survived Hurricane Helene's flooding in Fairview, N.C., by climbing onto their kitchen counter and praying as the water rose around them.. In an interview with local TV ...