6/4/2023 0 Comments Hurricane katrina aftermath![]() ![]() Much of Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel Island were leveled. Ian slammed into southwestern Florida at Category 4 intensity with a peak storm surge up to 15 feet and wind gusts up to 140 mph. Over 15 families were isolated by this landslide. 4, 2017, two weeks after Hurricane Maria ravaged the U.S. John’s River and even as far north as Charleston Harbor.Ī home is shown partially swept down a hillside in the municipality of Corozal, Puerto Rico, on Oct. Historic storm surge and more than a foot of rain in spots caused record flooding along Florida's Atlantic coast, in northeastern Florida’s St. Wind gusts caused widespread damage across peninsular and northern Florida and into parts of central and southern Georgia. The hurricane pushed northward along the Interstate 75 corridor through the overnight hours Sept. Services were knocked out to a vast majority of residents in the lower and middle Keys, with some estimates of up to 93% of power customers knocked off the grid during the storm. Storm surge in the Florida Keys was 5 to 8 feet above ground level. Irma’s Category 4 landfall was the most damaging strike on Florida since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. John, as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph winds in early September 2017 after devastating the island of Barbuda. One of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record, Irma delivered a devastating strike on the Virgin Islands, particularly St. Radar image of Hurricane Andrew at landfall in South Florida on August 24, 1992. Ivan also spawned 120 tornadoes, a record for the most tornadoes produced by any tropical storm or hurricane in U.S. From there, Ivan went on to produce wind and flood damage well inland from Georgia all the way to Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Ivan produced a significant amount of wind and storm surge damage along the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast. Ivan (2004): $32.4 BillionĪ little more than a month after Hurricane Charley ravaged the central Florida Peninsula, Hurricane Ivan blasted ashore near the border of southern Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle. landfalling hurricanes (Michael 2018 $29.7 billion) and one of 2005’s most damaging hurricanes (Wilma $28.9 billion) out of the top 10 list. That’s more than the gross domestic product of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Switzerland.Ī pair of hurricanes in the past two years bumped one of the few Category 5 U.S. These 10 hurricanes inflicted a total of $927.1 billion in damage in the U.S. All damage estimates are adjusted for inflation to 2023, and the methodology used to compute these estimates can be found here. This latest update was released by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information in May 2023. The nation’s costliest hurricanes list is a who’s who of the most notorious storms to have struck the United States largely this century, with one exception. Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. ![]()
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