“Unseen Fury: Jaw-Dropping Space Photography Reveals the True Power of Storms Like Never Before!”
Hurricane Irma was the first category 5 storm to ever hit Leeward islands and was the most intense Hurricane to hit the United States since Katrina in 2005. Irma caused catastrophic damage with 92 deaths in the contiguous United States, and four in the U.S. Virgin islands.
Hurricane Harvey Making Landfall In Southern Texas
Striking in 2017, Hurricane Harvey is tied with 2005’s Hurricane Katrina as the most expensive tropical cyclone on record. The storm cost over $125 million in damage, most of it coming from flooding in the Houston metropolitan area. It was the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005, ending the 12-year period of no hurricanes making landfall in the United States.
In just four days, many areas received 40 inches of rain, leading to disastrous flooding. Harvey was the wettest hurricane on record, flooding hundreds of thousands of homes and displacing more than 30,000 people.
Hurricane Matthew Passing Through The Caribbean
Hurricane Matthew was the first Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean since Hurricane Felix in 2007. It first formed in September 2016, and lead to total destruction in Haiti, as well as in the southeastern United States. Several islands in the Bahamas were still recovering from Hurricane Joaquin when they devastated by Matthew as it passed through.
Matthew is considered to be the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Stan in 2005. In Haiti, the hurricane killed 546 people and cost $1.9 million in damages, making it the worst disaster to hit the nation since the 2010 earthquake.
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