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The hurricane moved directly over the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Sea, strengthening as it did so. On the island of Dominica, winds were clocked at 24 mph (39 km/h); there were no reports of damage, [4] though one fatality occurred. [8] In Martinique, further south of the storm's path, there were three fatalities.
September 24, 2005 – Hurricane Rita made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the Texas-Louisiana border with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. Devastaing storm surge destroyed coastal communities in Cameron Parish such as Holly Beach, but only one person was killed throughout the state due to mass evacuations which were heeded in the wake ...
Financial Impact: $27.3 billion (1992 dollars), equivalent to ~$55 billion today. This Category 5 hurricane hit the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana, and remains the most destructive hurricane to ...
The Army Corps of Engineers says it's ready for hurricane season, and advises people to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. How current Lake Okeechobee conditions could affect hurricanes ...
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane or Hurricane San Felipe Segundo was a deadly hurricane that struck Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, and southern Florida in September of the 1928 Atlantic hurricane season. The hurricane killed at least 4,075 people and caused around $100 million (1928 US dollars ) in damages over the course of its path.
An escalator is seen in Capital One Tower that had its windows blown out in the downtown area after Hurricane Laura passed through on August 27, 2020 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The hurricane hit ...
Several other major hurricanes struck the state during the time period, including the 1926 Miami hurricane, the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, and a cyclone each in 1945, 1947, 1948, and 1949. All of these storms made landfall as Category 4 hurricanes.