>>>Sept. 8, 1900: The Galveston hurricane was deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, killing from 8,000 to 12,000 people.
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>>That was before they had satellites and hurricane hunters right? They probably didn't know what hit them.
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>Well considering the Russians launched the first satellite in 1959(?) and the first airplane to fly over a hurricane did not happen until WWII...

First Russian satellite was launched October 4, 1957.
To clarify, it was launched before the first American satellite. (Explorer 1, January 31, 1958).
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