Read and learn about history and pick out a good one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_17
Bad day for hurricanes in history on this date(but it is the hurricane season)........more below.
1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).
1969 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_Galveston_hurricane
The 1915 Galveston hurricane was tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage in the Galveston area in August 1915. Widespread damage was also documented throughout its path across the Caribbean Sea and the interior United States. Due to similarities in strength and trajectory, the storm drew comparisons with the deadly 1900 Galveston hurricane. While the newly completed Galveston Seawall mitigated a similar-scale disaster for Galveston, numerous fatalities occurred along unprotected stretches of the Texas coast due to the storm's 16.2 ft (4.9 m) storm surge. Overall, the major hurricane inflicted at least $30 million in damage and killed 403–405 people. A demographic normalization of landfalling storms suggested that an equivalent storm in 2018 would cause $109.8 billion in damage in the United States.
I think that we should note that this was NOT the Galveston hurricane of historical note that killed more people in the US than any other hurricane and any other natural disaster in this country's history in 1900, 15 years previous to this. That one is below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
The Great Galveston hurricane,[1] known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900,[2][3] was the deadliest natural disaster in United States history, one of the deadliest hurricanes (or remnants) to affect Canada, and the fourth-deadliest Atlantic hurricane overall. The hurricane left between 6,000 and 12,000 fatalities in the United States; the number most cited in official reports is 8,000. Most of these deaths occurred in and near Galveston, Texas, after storm surge inundated the coastline with 8 to 12 ft (2.4 to 3.7 m) of water. In addition to the number killed, the storm destroyed about 7,000 buildings of all uses in Galveston, which included 3,636 destroyed homes; every dwelling in the city suffered some degree of damage. The hurricane left approximately 10,000 people in the city homeless, out of a total population of nearly 38,000. The disaster ended the Golden Era of Galveston, as the hurricane alarmed potential investors, who turned to Houston instead. In response to the storm, three engineers designed and oversaw plans to raise the Gulf of Mexico shoreline of Galveston island by 17 ft (5.2 m) and erect a 10 mi (16 km) seawall.
The U.S. Weather Bureau got the forecast completely wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Diane
Hurricane Diane was the costliest Atlantic hurricane of its time, causing $813.7 million in damage.[nb 1] The inclusion of loss of business and personal revenue increased the total to over $1 billion. One of three hurricanes to hit North Carolina during the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed on August 7 from a tropical wave between the Lesser Antilles and Cape Verde. Diane initially moved west-northwestward with little change in its intensity, but began to strengthen rapidly after turning to the north-northeast. On August 12, the hurricane reached peak sustained winds of 105 mph (165 km/h), making it a Category 2 hurricane. Gradually weakening after veering back west, Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, as a strong tropical storm on August 17, just five days after Hurricane Connie struck near the same area.
What's most interesting is that this area of the East Coast was getting pummeled by hurricanes during the 1954 and 1955 seasons.
During the previous year, 1954 there were 3 major hurricanes to strike the East Coast in 3 months(Carol, Donna, Hazel). ...............the 50's-60's-70's were decades of global cooling.
There was actually an extraordinarily rare late December hurricane that year(in the central Atlantic). Alice-1 had been the name of the first storm back in June and this became Alice-2, and the only hurricane in the Atlantic to cross into the next calendar year and become a hurricane for both years(1954-1955)....until 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Atlantic_hurricane_season
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| Seasonal statistics | |
|---|---|
| Strongest storm | |
| Seasonal boundaries | |
| 1954 Atlantic hurricane season | |
 Season summary map | |
| First system formed | May 28, 1954 |
| Last system dissipated | January 6, 1955 (tied record latest with 2005) |
| Name | Hazel |
| • Maximum winds | 130 mph (215 km/h) (1-minute sustained) |
| • Lowest pressure | 938 mbar (hPa; 27.7 inHg) |
| Total depressions | 17 |
| Total storms | 16 |
| Hurricanes | 7 |
| Major hurricanes (Cat. 3+) | 3 |
| Total fatalities | 1069 |
| Total damage | $751.6 million (1954 U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Camille
Hurricane Camille was the second most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States.
Only the 1935 Labor Day hurricane had a lower pressure at landfall. As Camille pushed inland, it quickly weakened and was a tropical depression by the time it was over the Ohio Valley. Once it emerged offshore, Camille was able to restrengthen to a strong tropical storm, before it became extratropical on August 22. Camille was subsequently absorbed by a frontal storm over the North Atlantic on the same day.
Camille caused tremendous damage in its wake, and also produced a peak official storm surge of 24 feet (7.3 m). The hurricane flattened nearly everything along the coast of the U.S. state of Mississippi, and caused additional flooding and deaths inland while crossing the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. In the U.S., Camille killed more than 259 people[1][2] and caused $1.42 billion in damages (equivalent to $9.7 billion in 2018
Camille also occurred during global cooling.
Why am I mentioning that these record hurricanes and record hurricane seasons occurred during global cooling?
Because later this year, when the 2019 hurricane season picks up, like it always does every year, if we have any major hurricanes, you WILL be told erroneously by the MSM that global warming and climate change are causing hurricanes to get worse.
This will be more fake news about the fake climate crisis. We are having a climate optimum.
It's like we never had hurricanes before.
They are delusional to compare this to the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane that obliterated Florida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Labor_Day_hurricane
The Labor Day hurricane was the most intense storm ever known to make landfall in the Western Hemisphere, having the lowest sea level pressure ever recorded in the United States—a central pressure of 892 mbar (26.35 inHg)—suggesting an intensity of between 162 and 164 knots (186 and 189 mph).