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HURRICANES AND TROPICAL STORMS OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN

PAST CENTURY CATEGORY 5 HURRICANES

PB4Y-2 PRIVATEER(Hurricane Hunter) Lost, Hurricane JANET

GALVESTON 1900

GALVESTON 1900

NO NAME CAT. 4 MIAMI, FLORIDA 1926

MIAMI 1926

NO NAME CAT. 4 LAKE OKEECHOBEE 1928

1935 FLORIDA KEYS CAT. 5

FLORIDA KEYS 1935

LONG ISLAND EXPRESS

1938

EASY KING LOVE 1950

FLORIDA HURRICANE DONNA CAT

Donna about 60 miles from Miami 1960

1964 CLEO ISBELL DORA

HURRICANE CAMILLE 1969 CAT. 5

RICHELIEU APTS. PASS CHRISTIAN CAMILLE

AFTER CAMILLE

American Legion Post, Bay St. Louis

Landships, Camille

HURRICANE ALLEN CAT

CAT. 5

CAROLINAS HURRICANE HUGO CAT

Hurricane Andrew, 1992

MLB 88D on ANDREW CAT. 4

Hurricane Andrew, 1992 Lost Roofs

Hurricane Andrew, 1992 Destroyed Mobile Homes

BUGER KING HQ

ANDREW

1995 ALLISON ERIN JERRY OPAL

ERIN 1995

ERIN’S FLOODS

OCEANOGRAPHY 101 by ERIN

Hurricane Opal, 1995 ALMOST CAT. 5 OPAL 1995

1996 BERTHA HORTENSE JOSEPHINE LILI

FRAN

1998 GEORGES EARL MITCH

GEORGES, KEY WEST

GEORGES, BIG PINE KEY

MITCH 1998

MITCH COMIN’ TO FLORIDA

1999 DENNIS FLOYD HARVEY IRENE

U.S. EAST COAST CAT FLOYD

155 mph, 921MB CAT SEP FLOYD

FLOYD ANDREW

IRENE 1999

After normalizing to today’s population, wealth, and dollars, the worst U.S hurricane was not ANDREW! It was the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane! Had that storm hit in the mid-1990’s, the estimated cost would have been over $63 billion with an additional $9 billion in the Florida panhandle and Alabama!

HURRICANE SEASON TOTAL U.S. COASTLINE 64% (52%) U.S. EAST COAST WITH FLORIDA 43% (31%) GULF COAST 36% (30%) ABOVE AVERAGE IN THE CARIBBEAN SEA

FIRST CAT.5 THIS NEW CENTURY

THE BIG ONE IS STILL OUT THERE