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What causes hurricanes?
Things essential for hurricanes:
1. winds must be faster than 75 miles per hour
2. the air must be moist
3. Must have warm water
4. near water
Hurricanes start from rapid winds forming within the ocean, and they eventually come up to the surface. They can be very dangerous to be around.
How do hurricanes affect people?
They affect people by destroying homes, families, and deaths. In some cases the salt could be a very big factor in the deaths. People get so much salt in there system from the sea water that they just die. The salt also kills the trees, which is bad because we need plants to survive in the world. The good thing about that is the trees can grow back, thank goodness. Hurricane Wilma was on an island and killed all of the trees on the entire island all because of the salt. Hurricanes ruin lives very easily and fast.
What is the deadliest hurricane in the time period?
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is the deadliest hurricane between 1900 and 2010. It was a catogory 4 hurricane according to the scale. It is to this very day the deadliest natural disaster to ever hit the United States. It killed an estimated 6000 to 12000 individuals. Only about 8000 people were actually reported though. By the time it hit land the winds were already 315 miles per hour. It is sometimes referred to as the great flood of galveston.
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