When a Hurricane Strikes

WHEN A URRICANE STRIKES GET A GLIMPSE INTO THE POWERFUL STATS OF A HURRICANE m AUGUST 23-31 2005 HURRICANE KATRINA MAXIMUM WINDSPEED: 175 MPH LIVES CLAIMED: 1,836 US DAMAGE: $81,000,000,000 Approximately 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded up to 20 feet. The flooding destroyed New Orleans, the Nation's thirty-fifth largest city. SEPTEMBER 1 16 2008 N HURRICANÉ IKE MAXIMUM WINDSPEED: 145 MPH LIVES CLAIMED: 103 US DAMAGE: $29,520,000 WITHOUT POWER: 2.5 TO 4.5 MILLION HOMES FLOODED: 100,000 OCTOBER 15-26 2005 HURRICANE 5 WILMA MAXIMUM WINDSPEED: 185 MPH LIVES CLAIMED: 23 US DAMAGE: $21,007,000 SEPTEMBER 2-24 2004 M HURRICANE IVAN 3 MAXIMUM VWINDSPEED: 165 MPH LIVES CLAIMED: 92 US DAMAGE: $18,820,000 4 AUGUST 9-15 2004 HURRICANE CHARLEY MAXIMUM WINDSPEED: 145 MPH LIVES CLAIMED: 15 US DAMAGE: $15,113,000 OCTOBER 29, 2012 HURRICANE SANDY 3 WITHOUT POWER: 8.5 MILLION, 15 STATES AND THE D.C. LIVES CLAIMED: 286 IN 7 COUNTRIES US DAMAGE: OVER $68,000,000, 2ND MOST COSTLY IN US HISTORY HOMES THAT BURNNED TO THE GROUND: 110 NYSE DOWN: 2 DAYS Affected Areas: Virginia, Florida, Carolinas, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Deleware, NJ, Pennsylvania, NY, New England, Midwest states bordering Michigan, Canada, Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, The Bahamas, Bermuda Killed at least 117 people in the United States and 69 more in Canada and the Caribbean. The death toll in the U.S includes 53 in New York state, 34 in New Jersey, 12 in Pennsylvania, six in West Virginia, four in Connecticut, one in Maryland, and seven elsewhere in the U.S. Brought to you by: First Atlantiç RESTO RATION CATEGORY 3 CATEGORY 3 CATEGORY 4