There are so many different ways to measure a hurricane.
Whether is be wind speed and rain or the death toll and amount of property damaged.
One thing that is certain is that hurricanes are scary and you never want to catch yourself
looking into the eye of the storm.
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I’m Landon Dowlatsingh and I’ll be your host for this video.
With the recent news about Hurricane Florence and its extremely dangerous properties, we
thought we would make a video about the top 10 scary hurricanes captured on camera.
Starting this list off in at number 10 we have Hurricane Andrew.
This was a massive category 5 hurricane that struck the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana
during August 1992.
In total, it destroyed more than 63,000 homes and damaged more than 124,000 others.
This deadly hurricane claimed the lives of 65 people and caused $27.3 billion dollars
in damages.
The wind was recorded at 165mph at it left 250,000 people homeless.
Hurricane Andrew was the reason why Florida changed its buildings and inspection laws.
Now buildings must be built to a higher standard in order to be able to withstand future hurricanes.
Hurricane Harvey tumbles onto this list in at number 9.
This massive hurricane travelled through the Gulf of Mexico during August 2017 and then
it hit the United States as a category four hurricane.
Winds of 130 mph hit Houston and Galveston hard.
Floods in Houston were very severe because the storm remained in this area for days,
dumping up to 50 inches of water in certain locations over a four day span which is the
amount of rainfall that Houston usually sees in an entire year.
More than 13,000 people required rescue services and unfortunately, Hurricane Harvey claimed
the lives of at least 82 people.
Up next in at number 8 we have Hurricane Hugo.
This was one of the strongest and costliest hurricanes to affect the United States and
Caribbean.
It was classified as a category 5 hurricane that caused damages to Guadeloupe, Saint Croix,
Puerto Rico and the Southeast United States.
This hurricane caused 34 fatalities that were mostly caused by electrocution and drowning
and it left nearly 100,000 people to be homeless.
Hurricane Sandy spirals in at number 7.
After causing devastating effects on Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti, the huge, slow moving storm
weakened to a post-tropical cyclone before it hit the US back in October 2012.
But despite the hurricane decreasing in strength, it was still strong enough to cause an overwhelming
amount of damage on New York City and
the Jersey shore.
There were storm surges that left parts of lower Manhattan under water and residents
without power for days.
Parts of Staten Island and beaches in Queens were almost wiped off of the map.
Hurricane Sandy destroyed about 650,000 homes and killed 117 people in the US alone as well
as 69 others in Canada and the Caribbean.
The total amount of damages is also said to equal about $65 billion dollars.
Hurricane Camille takes us over to number 6.
This was a nasty storm that brought heavy flooding and 200mph winds to the Gulf Coast
and Virginia.
Hurricane Camille brought in 20 inches of rain as well as flash flooding and mudslides.
This storm resulted in the deaths of 256 people and it caused more than $1.4 billion dollars
in damages.
Because of this Hurricane, it caused the creation of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane wind scale
which is designed to rank storms based on wind speed.
So, this device gives residents in danger zones a better idea of what to expect from
a storm.
And now in at number 5 we are talking about Hurricane Gilbert.
This hurricane was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that peaked to a category five.
It was the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record until it was surpassed in 2005 by
Hurricane Wilma.
After this catastrophic hurricane hit category five, it literally covered the entire island
of Jamaica, damaging around 80 percent of the homes on the island.
The hurricane then made its way over to the Cayman Islands and Mexico before slowing down
and crossing over to Texas.
This storm caused 318 deaths and caused $5.5 billion dollars worth of damages.
Hurricane Wilma makes its mark on this list in at number 4.
Hurricane Wilma was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.
Wilma actually broke several records for both strength and seasonal activity.
Hurricane Wilma was one of the 28 storms that developed during the 2005 hurricane season
which made that year one of the busiest ones on record.
Actually, it was the first time that forecasters ran out of names from the regular naming chart
of tropical storms and they had to go to the Greek alphabet to name storms.
The highest winds on record for this storm were 185mph and it caused 87 people to lose
their lives.
Up next on this disastrous list in at number 3 we have Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina claimed the lives of 1,833 people and left us with $161 billion dollars
worth of damage.
Actually, she is considered to be the costliest hurricane in US history.
Katrina also caused 400,000 people to leave their homes and move to areas like Houston
and Atlanta.
Most of these people never returned to New Orleans.
It was even estimated that 80% of New Orleans was under water and most of these places were
under by 20ft.
Could you imagine?
The levees in New Orleans were only designed for
a category three hurricane, Katrina was a category 5 hurricane with winds up to 175mph.
Hurricane Maria comes tumbling onto this list in at number 2.
This hurricane was the second category 5 hurricane to hit in 2017.
This hurricane came just two weeks after brutal Hurricane Irma hit land and it was extremely
devastating because it tore through some of the same areas the Irma had traveled.
Hurricane Maria hit land on September 18, 2017 with wind speeds of 175mph or 280km/h.
Its destructive path took it over to Guadalupe and then the US Virgin Islands before destroying
Puerto Rico.
The official death tool of Hurricane Maria was set at 146 however people argued that
this number was way too low.
So, after an investigation from the George Washington University, the death toll was
corrected in August 2018 to 2,975.
This hurricane also caused 91.61 billion dollars worth of damage which is absolutely insane.
Hurricane Mitch comes crashing in at number 1.
This destructive hurricane made its impact during October 1998 when it struck Central
America, killing more than 11,000 people and destroying hundreds of thousands of homes
causing more than $5 billion in damages.
Hurricane Mitch was a slow-moving disaster that had four inches of rain an hour for two
days which caused mudslides and deadly floods.
Mitch is the second deadliest hurricane on record and it is the worst one that hit the
western hemisphere.
Well there you guys have it..