Famous Storms

Storm destruction is divided into three categories:  wind damage, storm surge, and flooding. The Saffir-Simpson Scale is used to measure the size of a hurricane.  There have been many destructive storms in recent history.  Some of these are:

1900 - 6,000 people killed on Galveston Island, Texas             Damage from Texas

1960 - Hurricane Donna headed toward North Carolina

1969 - Hurricane Camille had almost the strongest storm surge ever.  It has 200 mph winds. 

1974 - Hurricane Fifi attacked Honduras killing about 8,000 people.

1975 - Typhoon Nina in China killed 100,000 people with its flooding.

1997 - Typhoon Linda killed 600 in Vietnam

            Hurricane David in Puerto Rico killed 4,000

1999 - Hurricane Floyd hit North Carolina and caused more than $6 billion in damages

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