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A 5 page overview of several of the most devastating storms that have hit the U.S. This paper discusses how hurricanes form and how they are studied and tracked. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Hurricanes are one of the most powerful of natures many faces. Most often we regard hurricanes in a negative
light. This is not surprising given the tremendous impact they have to life and property. Despite the fact that they play an important ecological and climatological role, hurricanes
are among the most dreaded of climatic events. While hurricanes have obviously occurred on this continent since the beginning of the earth, they
have only been recorded in North America since the arrival of the first Europeans to these shores. As our experience with hurricanes has grown so too has the way
we document them and gauge their intensity. In our earlier history there was no direct measurement scale for hurricanes. Instead we remember them only in terms of the
number of lives they took or in the terms of the amount of property they damaged. It is important to remember, however, that as our nation has developed those
areas most susceptible to hurricane damage have become home to masses of people. Along with those people has come development. While a relatively weak hurricane would have done
little damage in our earlier history either in terms of lives taken or in terms of property destroyed, that same strength hurricane today could exert a heavy toll.
In terms of the number of lives taken, the Galveston Texas hurricane of September 8, 1908 is considered the worst in history (Pearson Education Inc.).
It took between 6,000 and 8,000 lives (Pearson Education Inc.). Just twenty years later the second deadliest hurricane in U.S. history hit. It targeted the Lake Okeechobee
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