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Hurricane Gloria was a powerful hurricane that caused significant damage along the east coast of the United States and in Atlantic Canada during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the first significant tropical cyclone to strike the northeastern United States since Hurricane Agnes in 1972 and the first major storm to affect New York ...
List of New Jersey hurricanes. Tracks of all tropical cyclones to pass through New Jersey from 1851 through 2022. There have been 115 hurricanes or tropical storms that affected the U.S. state of New Jersey. Due to its location, few hurricanes have hit the state directly, though numerous hurricanes have passed near or through New Jersey in its ...
The 1985 Atlantic hurricane season was an average, yet destructive year that experienced a near-record number of hurricanes strikes in the United States. It is tied with 2020 and only surpassed by 1886. [1][2] The season officially began on June 1 and lasted until November 30. [3]
Hurricane Gloria was a hurricane during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season that prowled the Atlantic Ocean from September 16 to September 28, 1985. A Cape Verde-type hurricane, it reached Category 4 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, but weakened significantly by the time it made landfall on North Carolina and on Long Island.
The storm's high winds and heavy rainfall knocked down or damaged more than 113,000 trees across the state, many of which fell onto power lines, leaving about 2.7 million New Jerseyans without power. [8][27] The power outages affected 70 water systems and 80 sewage systems. High waters sank 1,400 boats.
Hurricane Bob was the first of six hurricanes to strike the United States during the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season. The second tropical storm and first hurricane of the year, Bob developed from a tropical wave on July 21 in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Bob began moving east, making landfall southwestern Florida as a weak tropical storm. The ...
Hurricane Kate was the final in a series of tropical cyclones to impact the United States during 1985. The eleventh named storm, seventh hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 1985 Atlantic hurricane season, [ nb 1 ] Kate originated from the interaction of an upper-level trough and tropical wave northeast of Puerto Rico on November 15.
Rubin Carter. Rubin " Hurricane " Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, [2] until released following a petition of habeas corpus after almost 20 years in prison. In 1966, Carter, and his co-accused, John Artis, were arrested for a triple ...