Worst Hurricanes In The History Of Humanity

Haiti Storm

After barreling through Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti, the huge, slow-moving storm of Haiti weakened to a post-tropical cyclone before making U.S. landfall in October 2012. Storm surges of more than 13 feet (4 meters) left parts of lower Manhattan under water and residents across the borough without power for days. Sandy destroyed or damaged about 650,000 homes in the Northeast region and killed 117 people in the U.S. alone, as well as 69 others in Canada and the Caribbean.

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