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	Jay Barnes on Hurricanes \| North Carolina's Hurricane History \| Hurricane Hazel
		Hazel's surge was made worse by a matter of pure coincidence--it had struck at the exact time of the highest lunar tide of the year--the full moon of October.
		Left: As hurricane Hazel came ashore on the morning of October 15, 1954, the people of Southport scrambled to avoid the storm's rapidly rising tide.
		Hazel ranks as one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to strike the United States in the twentieth century.
	www.ibiblio.org /uncpress/hurricanes/nc_hazel.html (835 words)

	Hurricane Hazel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hurricane Hazel was the worst hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season and one of the worst hurricanes of the 20th century.
		Hazel killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the United States just south of Wilmington, North Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane; it is the strongest hurricane ever recorded to strike so far north on the U.S. East Coast.
		Hurricane Hazel is the only recorded Category 4 hurricane to strike North Carolina or any states further north, although several other hurricanes (including Diana of 1984 and Helene of 1958) have come very close to doing so.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Hazel (898 words)

	Environment Canada: Remembering Hurricane Hazel
		The estimated cost of Hazel by a Royal Commission studying the effects was placed at $100,000,000, which in 2004 would be approximately $1 billion.
		The outcome of Hurricane Hazel was the recognition of the flood hazard in Southern Ontario and the development of plans to cope with the risk.
		Another significant outcome of Hazel was the formation of Toronto and Region Conservation (TRCA) and the prioritization of flood control and flood warnings by the three levels of government.
	www.atl.ec.gc.ca /weather/hurricane/hazel/en/index.html (677 words)

	AIRCurrents : 2006
		Hurricane Hazel killed 95 people in the U.S., 80 more in Canada and caused economic losses of about $281 million, a huge amount five decades ago.
		On October 14, as Hazel neared the Carolina coast, hurricane hunters measured Hazel’s winds at 150 mph and her forward speed at a lively 30 mph.
		Hazel made landfall as a category 4 hurricane near the border between South Carolina and North Carolina.
	www.air-worldwide.com /_public/html/air_currentsitem.asp?ID=807 (671 words)

	Historic Hurricanes--Some Of The Most Powerful Storms On Record.
		The "Hurricane" of 1903--The storm was indicated to be a hurricane by many in the media at the time, but it was in fact, a tropical storm with 70 mph winds along the coast.
		Hurricane Inez--Known as "The Crazy One," Inez carved an erratic path of death and destruction from the Caribbean to Florida, and to Mexico in October, 1966.
		Hurricane Grace--Contrary to what was said in the movie, The Perfect Storm, Grace was only a Category One Hurricane, but it would combine with a mid-latitude cyclone to form what would be known as the "Perfect Storm" in Meteorological terms during the final days of October, 1991.
	www.hurricaneville.com /historic.html (8089 words)

	Hurricane Hugo 1989
		Hurricane Hugo is the most intense hurricane to strike Georgia and the Carolinas in the last 105 years.
		The only hurricane that approaches Hugo's stature in the 20th century is Hurricane Hazel of 1954.
		Hurricane warnings were issued for the entire South Carolina coast at 6:00 a.m.
	www.geocities.com /hurricanene/hurricanehugo.htm (2181 words)

	Structure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This means that the wind direction at your location depends on where the hurricane's eye is. A boat on the northern edge of the orange area in Hurricane Fran (right) would experience winds from the east, while a boat on the southern edge would have westerly winds.
		Hurricane Hazel (1954) hit North Carolina on the morning of 15 October; fourteen hours later it reached Toronto, Canada where it caused 80 deaths.
		As a general rule of thumb, the hurricane's right side (relative to the direction it is travelling) is the most dangerous part of the storm because of the additive effect of the hurricane wind speed and speed of the larger atmospheric flow (the steering winds).
	hurricanes.noaa.gov /prepare/structure.htm (933 words)

	Hurricane Hazel
		Hazel made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near the North Carolina/South Carolina border, placing the eastern one-third of North Carolina in the dangerous right front quadrant of the storm.
		Hazel continued to push northward across the Mid Atlantic states and into Pennsylvania and New York during the afternoon and evening of October 15.
		Hurricane Carol developed over the Bahamas on August 25, before delivering a glancing blow to North Carolina on the night of August 30, as it accelerated northeastward and eventually made landfall in New York and Connecticut.
	www4.ncsu.edu /~nwsfo/storage/cases/19541015 (1083 words)

	Disaster News Network: What's the hurricane history?
		As Hurricane Isabel, which has gone from Category 5 to Category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, makes a beeline for North Carolina's Outer Banks of North Carolina, coastal residents from Cape Hatteras to Massachusetts are wondering what exactly they should expect.
		Hazel also hit at high tide — the highest lunar tide of the year, which generated a surge that rose up to 18 feet.
		This hurricane was one of the worst to hit the Cheseapeake during the 18th century, and it passed directly over Williamsburg, causing considerable damage there.
	www.disasternews.net /news/news.php?articleid=2009 (1148 words)

	USATODAY.com - Powerful Hazel hit in 1954 with little warning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As Hazel came ashore, he and his wife fled her mother's mobile home, seeking safety in a two-story home where they pulled themselves up a handrail on an outside staircase, then broke through a door.
		The National Hurricane Research Division of NOAA ranks Hazel as the 13th most intense storm ever to hit the United States, behind several unnamed storms in the 1900s, Andrew, Camille, and Carla, Donna and Hugo.
		Hurricane researcher Chris Landsea has tried to equate the damage done by a wide array of storms, taking into account inflation, population changes and increases in property values.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/hurricane/2004-09-29-hazel_x.htm (1290 words)

	Hurricane Hazel - Air - SOS! Canadian Disasters - Library and Archives Canada
		Hurricane Hazel hit Toronto on October 15, 1954, when the city had a population of over one million people.
		At its worst, Hurricane Hazel was a category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, but the storm was downgraded from a hurricane to an extratropical cyclone as it moved over Lake Ontario.
		A hurricane was a rare event in these parts -- during the first 50 years of the 20th century, of the more than 350 hurricanes to have been noticed in the western Atlantic region, only 25 had even the slightest effect on Canada.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /sos/002028-3200-e.html (445 words)

	Hurricane Hazel -
		By October 14, just before reaching the Carolinas, hurricane hunter planes found Hazel's winds to have accelerated to 150 mph (240 km/h), and the storm was moving at an incredible forward speed of 30 mph (48 km/h).
		At landfall, Hazel brought a storm surge of 14.5 feet (4.4 m) to a large area of coastline.
		By midnight on the 15th a historic 210 mm (8.5 inches) of rain fell on the watersheds of the Don and Humber rivers and the Etobicoke and Mimico creeks.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Hurricane_Hazel (988 words)

	Hurricane History
		Hazel was responsible for 95 deaths and $281 million in damage in the United States, 100 deaths and $100 million in damage in Canada, and an estimated 400 to 1000 deaths in Haiti.
		Isabel became a hurricane on September 7th and rapidly intensified to Category 4 hurricane strength on the evening of the 8th while the eye was located more than 1100 miles to the east of the Leeward Islands.
		Rita, the third Category 5 hurricane of the season, was a destructive and deadly hurricane that devastated portions of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana and significantly impacted the Florida Keys.
	www.nhc.noaa.gov /HAW2/english/history.shtml (12224 words)

	USATODAY.com - 50 years after Hazel, coasts still at the mercy of hurricanes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A Category 4 hurricane with peak winds estimated at 140 mph, Hazel smashed shore on Oct. 15, 1954, pushing an 18-foot storm surge, one of the highest to ever pound the Carolinas.
		When Hazel was bearing down on Ocean Beach Drive, which later incorporated with several other small towns to become North Myrtle Beach, the first warning Bellamy received came in a phone call from a forecaster in Charleston.
		When Hazel came ashore at the state line, its 18-foot storm surge was boosted by one of the highest lunar tides of the year.
	usatoday.com /weather/hurricane/2004-05-13-hazel-remembered_x.htm?... (1361 words)

	Tropical Storm Hazel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Hazel has been used for two tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, three in the eastern Pacific Ocean, one in the western Pacific, and one in the Indian Ocean.
		It has not been used since the six-year lists began, and will not be used again since it was retired due to the destruction in 1954.
		1954's Hurricane Hazel - killed over 1000 people in Haiti, caused heavy damage and death from South Carolina to Ontario, totalling up to $5 billion in damage (inflation-adjusted 2005 US dollars).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Hazel_(disambiguation) (228 words)

	Weather Catalog -- Hurricane Hazel
		This Hurricane refused to die over land and maintained a lot of its strength after it came ashore in South Carolina with 140 mph winds.
		Hazel, the eighth hurricane of the year 1954 to menace the Atlantic Coast of North America, will long be remembered for its contrary moves and wide spread destruction.
		Most factors which ordinarily contribute to the destructive power of hurricanes seemed to be on Hazel's side.
	i4weather.net /hazel.html (753 words)

	Ontario Heritage Trust - Provincial plaque unveiling marks 50th anniversary of Hurricane Hazel
		"Hurricane Hazel was obviously a terrible tragedy," said The Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander, Chairman of the Foundation.
		But the legacy of this catastrophe was the development of a sophisticated province-wide weather warning system, measures to conserve watersheds of major rivers and a flood warning and control system.
		As a result of Hurricane Hazel, homes on low-lying lands were cleared and greenbelts were established in watershed areas, which became part of a broad system of Toronto and area parks.
	www.heritagefdn.on.ca /userfiles/HTML/nts_1_8118_1.html (577 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This dying hurricane combined with an extreme low pressure system to create a major storm.
		The hurricane produced the worst-ever floods in that area.
		The storm, which had just dropped out of hurricane classification with winds of 70 miles per hour, picked up extra moisture at the edge of the low-pressure system, and moved across the Great Lakes.
	www.disastershq.com /features/hazel.asp (981 words)

	Canadian Hurricane Centre: 1954 Storm Summaries
		Hurricane Edna formed in an easterly wave on the afternoon of September 6.
		In Canada, the most remembered hurricane was Hurricane Hazel in 1954 that re-intensified unexpectedly and rapidly, resulting in 81 deaths and over $100 million in damage in Southern Ontario.
		The hurricane passed near of the island of Grenada in the Windward Islands and into the Caribbean Sea.
	www.ns.ec.gc.ca /weather/hurricane/storm54.html (408 words)

	Heritage Perspectives:Hurricane Hazel Remembered
		With the worst hurricane season this year since 1886 when 4 hurricanes hit Texas many remember Hurricane Juan that did 100 million dollars in damage in the Halifax area last year.
		Hurricane Hazel began its erratic course off Granada in the Caribbean and caused as many as 500 deaths as it swept across Haiti, missed Florida, and went up the U.S. East Coast and into Canada.
		The Toronto Star had a feature on Hurricane Hazel on October 2 and has a website with information at www.thestar.ca/hazel.
	www.pastforward.ca /perspectives/oct_152004.htm (669 words)

	City Mayors: Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion
		Hazel McCallion is a committed follower of a pay-as-you-go philosophy and, in 1991, she became the first mayor of a major Canadian city to submit an annual operating budget to its residents for their input and scrutiny.
		In media articles the Mayor of Mississauga is often called ‘Hurricane Hazel’, and her political style is sometimes compared to that of Britain’s former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
		Hazel McCallion is convinced that her administration’s fiscal policies could be adopted by other cities in Canada and elsewhere.
	www.citymayors.com /interviews/mississauga_interview.html (1634 words)

	'A wind with a woman's name' - The Wrath of Hurricane Hazel - CBC Archives
		This fl and white film footage shows the full extent of Hurricane Hazel's destruction in the Toronto area from beginning to end.
		• Hurricanes in the West Indies used to be named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred.
		The lists are reused every six years, but hurricanes that cause substantial death or damage have their names retired.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-70-77-510/.../huricane_hazel/clip5 (223 words)

	CTV.ca \| Hurricane Hazel remembered 50 years later
		Meteorologist William Harrell was assigned to investigate Hazel on Oct. 14, as the storm tracked toward the Bahamas.
		Hazel prompted the most severe flooding Toronto had seen in more than 200 years.
		Hazel's arrival made it clear that development near rivers and creeks had to be stopped.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1097843602973_39?hub=Canada (682 words)

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		Fifty years ago this month, North Carolina was hit by Hurricane Hazel, at the time the greatest natural disaster in the state's history.
		On the morning of October 15, 1954, Hazel slammed into the coast near the border between North Carolina and South Carolina, a strong category four storm packing winds of 155 miles per hour.
		Chapel Hill in the aftermath of Hurricane Hazel.
	www.lib.unc.edu /ncc/ref/nchistory/oct2004/Hazel.htm (271 words)

	Worst Hurricane in North Carolina: 50 Years Later (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Hurricane Hazel, the worst hurricane in North Carolina's history, was about to engulf their honeymoon cottage on Oak Island, near Wilmington.
		But Hazel, a raging freak of nature riding the highest lunar tide of the year, was just starting its rampage when it gave the honeymooners a wakeup call on October 15, 1954.
		Hurricanes are often spawned from African weather systems during the early months of the hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/10/1014_041014_hurricane_hazel.html (617 words)

	Freshwater Website: Floods (Flooding events in Canada - Ontario)
		Thursday, October 14, to midnight on Friday, October 15,1954, an estimated 210 millimetres of rain fell on the watersheds of the Don and Humber rivers and the Etobicoke and Mimico creeks.
		Sometimes their rescue attempts were successful, but sometimes on the very brink of saving a life the rescuers were battered by a sudden surge of water and the ones they sought to save were swept away.
		Among the hurricane's victims were brave would-be rescuers who, like five volunteer fire-fighters from Etobicoke, were swept to their deaths in ill-fated efforts to reach marooned and endangered citizens.
	www.ec.gc.ca /water/en/manage/floodgen/e_ont.htm (3055 words)

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