The Rain Bomb: How a Huge âMicroburstâ Fell From the Sky in Australia (Video)
Galveston Texas was hit by the most famous hurricane in the early 1900s Katrina is the most famous of recent Hurricaines due to the flooding of new Orleans that resulted froâ¦m it. Hurricane Katrina is more famous than Ike. It was also more recent. Ike hit the entire east coast.
The Most Destructive U.S. Hurricanes of All Time. Hurricanes have been menacing the U.S. as long as anyone can remember, but the monetary damages the storms have caused has increased in recent years, as this TIME photo collection shows. The devastation from Hurricane Sandy â later dubbed a âSuperstormâ â rang in at $65 billion, leaving 72 people dead and more than 6 million homeless. Does that mean hurricanes are getting more powerful or more common? Not necessarily.