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84 total. Damage. $30 billion (2008 USD) Areas affected. East Texas (especially Galveston, Bolivar Peninsula, Gilchrist) Part of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Ike caused major destruction in Texas with crippling and long-lasting effects, including death, widespread damage, and impacts to the price and availability of oil and gas.
The List of Texas hurricanes from 1900 to 1949 encompasses 47 tropical cyclones that affected the U.S. state of Texas. The season with the most storms to affect the state was the 1933 Atlantic hurricane season, when five storms affected Texas. Major storms during this period include the 1900 and 1915 Galveston hurricanes, the former which ...
Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the top ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes in terms of barometric pressure ever recorded (along with Wilma and Katrina), Rita was the seventeenth named storm ...
A power outage hit Lake Jackson, Texas, as Hurricane Nicholas approached the Texas Gulf Coast on September 13.CenterPoint Energy said there were widespread power outages in the Houston area due to ...
Beryl, the season's earliest Category 5 hurricane on record, weakened from a hurricane after pounding the coastal Texas town of Matagorda with dangerous storm surges and heavy rain before moving ...
List of Texas hurricanes. The state of Texas has had many hurricanes affect it. It is the US state with the second-most hurricanes affecting it, only behind Florida. [1] Storms affecting it go back to 1527.
Hurricane Nicholas. Hurricane Nicholas was a slow-moving and erratic Category 1 hurricane that made landfall in the U.S. state of Texas in mid-September 2021. The fourteenth named storm and sixth hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, Nicholas originated from a tropical wave that emerged off the west coast of Africa on August 28.
The rise in Lake Ontario also damaged sightseeing facilities and river docks downstream of the Niagara Falls; total damage in New York was estimated at between $250,000–$400,000 and four deaths were reported in the state. [54] Hurricane-force winds extended as far east as St. Albans, Vermont, where