king game Gulf Coast States Have Been Battered by Hurricanes This Year
king game Gulf Coast States Have Been Battered by Hurricanes This Year
Hurricane Milton is expected to slam into Florida’s west coast on Wednesday as a major hurricane, packing life-threatening winds and storm surge. It would be the fifth to make landfall somewhere along the Gulf Coast of the United States this year.
There have been nine hurricanes in this year’s Atlantic season, and four others have hit the Gulf Coast, prompting evacuation orders from Texas to Florida and devastating coastal communities.
September: Hurricane HeleneHurricane Helene was the strongest storm to ever hit Florida’s Big Bend region, and it did so as a Category 4 hurricane with 140-mile-per-hour winds and record-breaking storm surges late September. It carved a path of destruction through the southeastern United States and has left over 200 people dead across six states. Countless other are still missing.
September: Hurricane FrancineHurricane Francine lashed southern Louisiana with intense winds and rains when it made landfall mid-September as a Category 2 storm. It flooded parts of New Orleans, toppled trees and snapped power lines.
August: Hurricane DebbyHurricane Debby hit Florida’s Big Bend area in early August. The storm left Cedar Key, a cluster of small barrier islands, badly battered and flooded. Although it was only briefly a Category 1 hurricane, it caused widespread damage in and beyond Florida because of the sustained rainfall it brought to several states.
June: Hurricane BerylHurricane Beryl became the earliest recorded Category 5 storm to form in the Atlantic. After wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, Beryl weakened and made landfall in southeast Texas as a Category 1 hurricane at the end of June. The storm killed at least seven people in Texas and an eighth in Louisianaking game, and knocked out power for nearly three million.