Sentence examples for severe hurricane from inspiring English sources

The city has suffered several major disasters, including a severe hurricane that swept over Galveston Island in 1915; the explosion in the harbour of the French freighter Grandcamp, loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer, in 1947, which killed 576 people and injured some 4,000 others; and a hurricane that destroyed much of the city in 1961.

Trees and tree limbs, including some that survived the more severe Hurricane Fabian in 2003, were downed, making several roads impassable.

Who knows what havoc a severe hurricane might heave wreaked, for example?

It seems as if a severe hurricane has swept through the area.

He likened the rainfall, especially around Tabernacle, to a severe hurricane or tropical storm that lingers in an area.

A severe hurricane in August 1951 temporarily stalled development by devastating crops and killing about 150 people.

Several biological reasons for the increase in autism associated with severe hurricanes have been suggested.

Even fairly large cays are vulnerable to complete destruction by severe hurricanes or typhoons.

Last year the company faced the twin hazards of severe hurricanes in the Caribbean and a sharp rise in fuel costs.

A. Florida is the source of 80percentt of the grapefruit juice consumed in the United States, and the crop is extremely limited because of devastation from three severe hurricanes in 2004 and one, Wilma, last fall.

A frustrating fact of life for climate scientists and emergency planners is that the most severe hurricanes are so rare that it is almost impossible to discern any pattern.