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So CNN has this gallery of the 10 Deadliest Hurricanes in US history.
A bit of a note: it doesn't include Katrina.
9. New Orleans, Louisiana 1915
New Orleans, Louisiana
September 1915
Death toll: 275
This Category 4 storm caused Lake Pontchartrain to overflow its banks, killing 275 people. That scenario is one that hurricane experts don't like to ponder because if the city, surrounded on three sides by water, is hit by a major hurricane, the storm surge might inundate the city.
....cough. coughcoughCOUGH.
September 1 2005, 20:03:30 UTC 6 years ago
*goes to check*
September 1 2005, 20:08:41 UTC 6 years ago
yup
10. Galveston, TexasGalveston, Texas
1915
Death toll: 275
A second Category 4 strike on the Gulf of Mexico coast in the same year: Galveston had constructed a seawall after the devastation of the 1900 hurricane. Still, 275 people died when the 1915 storm hit.
September 1 2005, 20:33:53 UTC 6 years ago
Re: yup
I meant number 1.September 2 2005, 02:17:48 UTC 6 years ago
Re: yup
I think Galveston in something like 1900 had a hurricane with a death toll of around 6,000?September 1 2005, 23:20:06 UTC 6 years ago
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?ch
September 2 2005, 00:32:09 UTC 6 years ago
September 1 2005, 23:42:06 UTC 6 years ago
September 2 2005, 00:32:55 UTC 6 years ago
Some market-driven locations are ecologically sound almost by accident, but others...aren't, to say the least. I definitely don't plan on living anywhere near New Orleans at any point in my life.
Hi Diane :)