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August 29, 2021 - Hurricane Ida made landfall at Port Fourchon, Louisiana as a high-end Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, the same day as the 16th anniversary of Katrina making landfall in the state. 33 people were killed and at least $18 billion in insured damage was inflicted across the state.
Hurricane Ian killed at least 148 people in Florida in September. Many of those deaths were preventable, an NBC News investigation found. Ian was one of the deadliest hurricanes in decades.
Ian was the ninth named storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, and was the first Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic since Lorenzo in 2019. [ 6 ] Ian originated from a tropical wave that moved off the coast of West Africa and across the central tropical Atlantic towards the Windward Islands .
Hurricane Ian killed 109 people in 19 Florida counties, making it one of the deadliest storms in recent history. The ABC Action News I-Team broke down what caused those deaths and the simple steps ...
Nearly 600,000 people in Florida are without power as of Monday afternoon.View Entire Post › At Least 85 People Were Killed In Hurricane Ian, And The Death Toll Could Rise Skip to main content
Tropical Storm Ian (2016) – tropical storm in the central Atlantic Ocean that never affected land. Hurricane Ian (2022) – extremely destructive Category 5 hurricane, made landfall in western Cuba, southwestern Florida, and South Carolina; responsible for over 160 direct and indirect deaths and over $113 billion in damage.
At $113 billion, Hurricane Ian ranks behind only Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Harvey in 2017, both of which caused $125 billion in damages, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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 ...