With top sustained winds of 155 mph, Hurricane Ian is a strong Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, but only four hurricanes have ever struck the U.S. with stronger winds.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reanalysis of the hurricane found that maximum sustained winds of 185 mph impacted the Florida Keys on Sept. 2, 1935.The Category 5 was blamed for killing more than 600 people and completely destroying buildings, roads and other infrastructure.
The Category 5 storm had sustained winds of about 175 mph when it made landfall on the Mississippi Coast on Aug. 27, 1969.A LOOK BACK ON HURRICANE CAMILLESimilar to other catastrophic hurricanes, its overall size was small, and hurricane-force winds only extended outward 40 miles from the center. People in destroyed neighborhoods ventured out of their homes into a world they didn’t recognize, and were forced into a situation more terrifying than the storm. For the rest of that week, the nights were the worst. There was no power, no water, looters roamed the neighborhoods and gunfire echoed through the desolation. It was hell on Earth in South Dade after the storm.Roads were blocked, so getting in and out of the destruction zone was hard or impossible.
During the height of the storm, before the transmission stopped, a sensor at Tyndall AFB measured a gust to 139 mph. Nearly 100% of customers across a large portion of the Florida Panhandle lost power, with some of these outages lasting weeks.The combination of rain, surge and winds caused an estimated $25.5 billion in damage .
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