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Killer Hurricanes 44 Season 24 Episode
55 min
1974
7.1
Devastating hurricanes struck the U.S. mainland and Caribbean islands in 2017. But they werenโt the first. The Great Hurricane of 1780 took nine days to blast its way across the Caribbean, killing at least 20,000โthe highest known death toll of any single weather event in history. What made this superstorm so deadly?
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