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Atlantic Gulf Hurricane,
Florida and Gulf Coast, 1919
• 287 dead
• Category : 4
• Influence : ripped through the Florida Keys , hit the Florida Straits and the Gulf of Mexico.
• this unnamed hurricane hit Galveston with winds up to 135 m.p.h. (220 km/h) and 15-ft. (4.5 m) tides that swept over Barrier Island.
• Unfortunately, meteorology was far from an exact science at the end of the 19th century, and they received very little warning about the storm's strength.
• Audrey victims had no warning, as news reports had advised residents that the storm would not make landfall for four days, but that very night, Audrey struck the southern coast.
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San Felipe a.k.a. Okeechobee
Hurricane, Florida, 1928
• 2,500 dead
• only the second hurricane to reach Category 5. Residents had returned to their homes after hearing rumors that the storm had passed, but soon a surge of water covered hundreds of square miles around the lake.
Depression.
• Official death tolls are fuzzy because of the large transient population and newly unaccounted-for residents.
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Hurricane Katrina,
New Orleans, 2005
• 1,836 dead
• the costliest natural disaster ever to hit the U.S. — estimates of the damages now total $81 billion
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Galveston Hurricane, Texas, 1915
• 275 dead / 11 Galveston Citizens
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The Grand Isle Hurricane,
New Orleans, 1909
• 350 dead
• caused major flooding throughout New Orleans,
• similar to Hurricane Katrina, aid from the government was slow to arrive in the more devastated areas until news reports began to focus on the hundreds of survivors left homeless and in dire need of basic necessities.
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• Named after its destructive path through Long Island
• It had been several decades since a hurricane of any significance had hit the northeast, and the storm came too suddenly for most residents to prepare.
• 408 people died in that single incident.
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The Long Island Express,
New York and New England, 1938
• Approximately 700 dead
• caused extreme damage as it delivered swells of 18 to 20 ft. (5.5 to 6 m) throughout the Florida Keys.
• Most of the deaths : the Florida Overseas Railroad, an evacuation train that was sent down from the mainland to rescue stranded residents and workers, which was washed right off the tracks and swept out to sea.
• Most of the people killed in the disaster were unidentifiable migrant farm workers.
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Galveston, Texas, 1900
• 6,000 to 12,000 dead
• a Category 3 hurricane.
• About 80% of historic New Orleans was covered with water ,and five years later, the region is still struggling to rebuild the devastated city.
bubble, as developers pursued ambitious and risky projects like floating hotels and man-made islands.
• the final push that brought Florida into the Great