The hurricane… It kicked off a historically destructive 2017 storm season for the Caribbean and the southern U.S. - The death toll from Hurricane Charley rose early Saturday, when a county official said there had a been "a number of fatalities" at a mobile home park and deputies were standing guard over stacks of bodies because the area was inaccessible to ambulances. The storm reached the Texas coast south of Galveston on September 8, 1900 as a Category 4 hurricane with a storm surge of 8 to 15 feet. October 29-November 7, 2010 - Hurricane Tomas Category 2 storm. Even before government officials locked the Hurricane Maria death toll in at 64, statistics-based estimates by a number of different sources indicated that the actual total could top 1,000. Death toll directly attributed to Irene was 48, with five in the Dominican Republic, three in Haiti and 40 in the United States. Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 storm when it hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005. September 18 2013 10:43 AM EDT ... FL where 9 years ago Hurricane Charley came ashore.

Floridians cope with hurricane's aftermath Death toll from Charley is 19 ... as they worked for a fifth day to clean up the destruction Hurricane Charley left behind. When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas Aug. 25, 2017, as a Category 4 hurricane, it became the country’s first major — Category 3 or higher — hurricane since Wilma hit Florida in October 2005 and the first major hurricane to strike southern Texas since Celia in 1970. Hurricane Harvey death toll climbs to 60 with 30 people killed in Harris County alone.

Hurricane Ingrid Recap. Hurricane Mitch struck Central America in late October 1998, leaving more than 11,000 people dead, destroying hundreds of thousands of homes and causing more than $5 billion in damages. The lack of warning and the high storm surge caused this storm to have the highest death toll of any United States hurricane. Hurricane Harvey Death Toll Hits 70 By Paul J. Weber and Claudia Lauer • Published September 6, 2017 • Updated on September 6, 2017 at 4:16 pm TELEMUNDO 51/Shutterstock HURRICANE CHARLEY IN FLORIDA MITIGATION ASSESSMENT TEAM REPORT iii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Damage Assessment Observations Because Hurricane Charley was a design level wind event, the resultant storm damage provides valuable evidence about the effectiveness of building codes and design practices as they ad-dress design guidelines for high winds.