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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 the hurricane made landfall. It brought a 15-foot-tall storm surge.



4. Hurricane Flora 1963.
Hurricane Point-a-Pitre. 1776 death toll 6000, the area affected Guadeloupe, United States Louisiana. The death toll of 7,186 was a category 4, and the affected regions were the Caribbean, Haiti, and Cuba; Hurricane Flora touched down in September during a 17-day run; it ravaged everything in its path. Not much is known about this storm, but besides the high death toll, 60% of French and Dutch merchant ships went down or lost.


5.  Hurricane Lake Okeechobee 1928.
A death toll of 4,065 was a category 4 area that affected Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, and the United States, Florida. When Hurricane hit the Palm Beach county shoreline, it broke Lake Okeechobee's dike, and the surge of water added to the devastation. 



6. Newfoundland Hurricane 1775.
Death toll 4000 areas affected Newfoundland and American colonies. The sea sunk ships, and thousands of crew members, including the crew of two Royal Navy ships, lost their lives.
7. Hurricane Maria 2017.
Death toll 2,975, category 4, areas affected: The Caribbean, Puerto Rico.
New England Journal in May 2018 the original death toll to be a substantial underestimate. The initial estimate of the death toll was 64; many died after the storm. Puerto Rico's governor's official death toll is 2,975, directly linked to Hurricane Maria.



8. Hurricane Katrina 2005.
The death toll of 1,833 category 3 areas affected the United States Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi.  New Orleans was hit the hardest, 80% of the city was flooded, and 273,000 lived in temporary shelters for months.


9. Hurricane Pauline 1997.
Death toll 400 category 4 areas affected Mexico; landslides were the number one killer in villages. Acapulco was also particularly hit during the hurricane.


10. Great Miami Hurricane 1926.
Death toll 372, category 4, areas affected United States Florida. Pouring rain and surges flooded the whole coast extending into mainland Miami.


11. Hurricane Gilbert 1988.
Death toll 318, category 5, areas affected Jamaica, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
Hurricane Gilbert covered the whole Island of Jamaica, with the highest death toll.
12. Hurricane Ike 2008.
Death toll 195 was category 4, areas affected the United States Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Cuba, the Caribbean, and the Bahamas. Ike was the 7th costliest hurricane to the U.S.



13. Hurricane Sandy 2012.
Death toll 147, category 2, areas affected, United States; New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and more, Caribbean, Haiti, Cuba, Canada
President Obama declared a state of emergency in Connecticut, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.  Hurricane Sandy was the costliest, with about 5 billion in damages to NYC' N Metropolitan Transportation and about 5 billion in infrastructure damages.


14. Hurricane Agnes 1972.
Death toll 122, category 1, areas affected United States Florida Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. Pennsylvania was the state with the highest death toll 48 deaths.
15. Hurricane Hugo 1989.
Death toll 50, category 5, areas affected Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and U.S. South Carolina.


16. Hurricane Florence 2018.
Torrential rain and winds up to 90mph dropped about 40 inches. Most of the rivers flooded their banks. The death toll was 42, and in category 1 areas affected U.S. Carolina, the hurricane was stated as a category 4 and downgraded to a category 1.

17. Hurricane Michael 2018.
Death toll 6+ category 4, areas affected U.S. Florida Panhandle, Georgia. The fourth most potent hurricane with 155mph winds, downgraded to a category 3 on its way to Georgia.
It took only 3 days for hurricane Michael to go from category 1 to 4.

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