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Hurricane Gustav (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ s t ɑː v /) was the second most destructive tropical cyclone of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.The seventh tropical cyclone, third hurricane, and second major hurricane of the season, Gustav caused serious damage and casualties in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Cuba and the United States.
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
September 1, 2008 – Hurricane Gustav reached the Louisiana coast on the morning of September 1, making landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana as a Category 2 with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. The center of the storm continued northwest across the state resulting in significant damage and 7 deaths; 34 parishes were declared as disaster areas.
189 total deaths, with 31 in American Samoa. 2008 Hurricane: 113 $38 billion (2008 USD) Hurricane Ike: Southeast Texas, Texas, Louisiana, Southern United States: At the time, Ike was the costliest natural disaster in Texas history, after leaving behind $38 billion in damages in Texas alone. 2008 Hurricane: 53 $8.31 billion (2008 USD) Hurricane ...
The Galveston Hurricane. Year: 1900. Death Toll: 6,000–12,000. Financial Impact: ... At the time, Hurricane Irma was the most powerful hurricane in history in the open Atlantic. People dubbed it ...
At least 74 deaths were attributed to the storm – including 59 in the U.S. and 15 in Central America. Michael caused an estimated $25.1 billion in damages. Historic Category 5 storms
Deadliest train crash in Amtrak history. 47 2016 Hurricane Matthew: Tropical cyclone Florida, Georgia, The Carolinas: $10,000,000,000 (2016) Damage and death figures are for the U.S. only. Storm caused an additional 551 deaths and US$5.08 billion in damage across the Caribbean. 46 1873 Dixon Bridge Disaster: Accident – bridge collapse Dixon ...
The women were hit in an intersection with a non-working stoplight damaged in the storm, the deadliest for the state since Hurricane Hugo in 1989 South Carolina hurricane-related deaths rise to 39 ...