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1. It was a dark and stormy night, and many residents of New Jersey had already evacuated their homes, but some had stayed behind, perhaps worried about the security of their Hallowe'en candy. Atlantic City's famous boardwalk was smashed to smithereens as Sandy struck land. It had to be rebuilt. Had it ever been destroyed before?
2. It was a dark and stormy night as the Category 1 hurricane they had named Katrina crossed over Florida. Three days later it peaked as a Category 5 hurricane while over the Gulf of Mexico, lessening only slightly to a strong Category 3 before striking Louisiana on August 29th and devastating the city of New Orleans and the surrounding countryside. In what year did this horrible tragedy occur?
3. It was a dark and stormy night as the first hurricane of 1992 formed in late August. It reached Category 5, ravaged the Bahamas and parts of Florida before making land again near Morgan City, Louisiana. Well before it weakened over Mississippi, everyone knew this hurricane's name. What was it?
4. It was a dark and stormy night in Jamaica in 1988, with winds screaming, debris flying, and trees being flattened. The record-setting hurricane intensified to Category 5 by the time it attacked the Yucatan Peninsula and subsequently mainland Mexico. What "G" hurricane was it?
5. It was a dark and stormy night - actually it was a lot of dark and stormy nights. Donna set a record for holding 'major hurricane status' the longest - she maintained windspeeds of at least 115 mph for nine days while wandering a total of 16 days before downgrading to an extratropical storm. Donna must have taken a lot of attention away from the Summer Olympics in Rome! In what year did this happen?
6. It was a dark and stormy night in August of 1955 when Hurricane Connie hit the North Carolina coast. The Category 3 hurricane was not overly spectacular - minimal damage and no deaths reported. But only five days later another (Category 1) hurricane landed in the same area. Combining the two of them, however, brought upwards of 32 inches of rainfall, causing massive flooding. What was the name of the second hurricane?
7. It was a dark and stormy night at sea. The war effort was going well, with D-Day having occurred just three months previously. The effects of 'The Great Atlantic Hurricane' were as devastating as a German U-boat attack - two US Coast Guard cutters, a destroyer, a minesweeper, and one other light ship sank - 344 souls in all. What year was it?
8. It was a dark and stormy night in 1938 when the New England Hurricane struck with little warning. The first major hurricane to hit New England since 1869, this storm was first noticed in the Atlantic on September 13th, and generally stayed out to sea. On the 21st it was 100 miles east of Cape Hatteras when it suddenly accelerated to over 60 miles per hour, hitting Long Island and Connecticut that afternoon as a Category 3 hurricane. By what name did this hurricane become known?
9. It was a dark and stormy night in mid-September of 1928 when Puerto Rico was struck with the full force of a Category 5 hurricane. It had not started there, and it did not end there... the Leeward Islands, the Bahamas and Florida were also heavily hit with a loss of life exceeding 4,000! One name for the hurricane was San Felipe Segundo, after the feast of San Felipe that was interrupted because of the storm. What was the other, named for the large lake in south Florida that breached its dike, flooding hundreds of square miles of land in the area?
10. It was a dark and stormy night ... and devastating. This turn-of-the-century hurricane claimed more than 8,000 lives, holding the record as the deadliest natural disaster to strike the United States in the 20th century. What coastal Texas city experienced the brunt of this Category 4 hurricane?
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