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Top 17 deadliest Hurricanes who hit the U.S.

Let's start with a little quiz, what are the differences between typhoons, cyclones, and hurricanes?   The Answer:   No difference; the name change indicates where they are from.  Hurricanes are tropical storms forming over the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific.  Cyclones are formed over the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean.  Typhoons are formed over the Northwest Pacific Ocean. 1 . The Great Hurricane 1780. Death Toll over 20,000, arias affected, the Caribbean’s, Barbados, not much is known about the great hurricane in 1780 it struck Barbados on October 10. British and French warships in the area were lost too. 2. Hurricane Mitch 1998. Death Toll of over 19,300 was a category 5; the areas affected were Honduras, Swan Islands, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. 3. Hurricane Galveston 1900. Death toll 12,000, areas affected, golf of Mexico, Cuba, and United States Texas. Galveston was only nine feet above sea level when t