Some lost their lives in the selfless effort.Now for some Hurricane History as today is a huge milestone in Hurricane History as it's the anniversary the strongest hurricanes to slam into the Carolinas and in the middle of October yet. Firemen and volunteers risked their lives time and again to pluck struggling flood victims from the swirling waters around Toronto. вЂњFloods also plagued parts of the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and New York. вЂњAcross a dozen Eastern Seaboard states earlier the storm had left jagged rubble where trim homes once stood,вЂќ The A.P. 17, that Hurricane Hazel was вЂњone of the worst continental blows of the century.вЂќ The Associated Press reported in a dispatch, published by The Asheville Citizen-Times on Oct. The known death toll by that date was 146 people - 90 in the United States and 56 in Canada. 18, 1954, three days after Hazel made landfall, that it had cut a 200-mile-wide вЂњpath of destructionвЂќ through 10 states and the District of Columbia, even making its way into Canada. In southern Manhattan, a peak gust of 113 miles per hour was recorded. It headed into Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and New York, with wind gusts in some places near 100 miles per hour, the Weather Service said. Hurricane HazelвЂ™s destructive punch was not confined to North Carolina. The official report from the Weather Bureau in Raleigh, the state capital, said that вЂњall traces of civilization on the immediate waterfront between the state line and Cape Fear were practically annihilated.вЂќ Damages rose to $136 million, according to Mr. Up to 15,000 homes were destroyed and another 39,000 were damaged. Nineteen people were killed in North Carolina and several hundred more were injured, the Weather Service said. Gusts on beaches in Brunswick County topped 140 miles per hour and winds ranged from 110 to 120 miles per hour in Fayetteville, Goldsboro and Kinston, according to Mr. The stormвЂ™s winds reached an estimated 150 miles per hour, some of the highest ever measured in the state.

An 18-foot storm surge swept away houses, and a record tidal surge crushed homes or swept them into nearby marshes, he said. Barnes wrote that Hurricane Hazel was the most violent storm of its kind to hit North Carolina - so far. 15, it made landfall near Calabash, N.C., near the border with South Carolina. Hazel strengthened as it made its way over warm tropical waters, and early on Oct. 11 and left an estimated 400 to 1,000 people dead, the Weather Service said. The storm crossed into western Haiti on Oct. It moved west over the Caribbean Sea and turned north, developing into a Category 4 storm by Oct. 5, 1954, as a tropical cyclone, about 50 miles east of Grenada in the Windward Islands, according to the National Weather Service. вЂњExtreme winds blasted farms and neighborhoods across the state, leaving behind mountains of trees, torn roofs, twisted powerlines, and debris.вЂќ вЂњResidents in Ocean Isle, Wrightsville and Topsail Beaches saw homes вЂdisappearвЂ™ into the pounding surf,вЂќ he wrote.

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