HURRICANE DONNA

9042, 1960, Hurricane Donna disaster, Hurricane Donna in the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season was a Cape Verde-type hurricane which moved across the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispanola, Cuba, The Bahamas, and every state on the East Coast of the United States. Hurricane Donna holds the record for retaining major hurricane status (Category 3 or greater on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale) in the Atlantic Basin for the longest period of time. For nine days, September 2 to September 11, Donna consistently had maximum sustained winds of at least 115 mph (185 km/h). From the time it became a tropical depression to when it dissipated after becoming an extratropical storm, Donna roamed the Atlantic from August 29 to September 14, a total of 17 days. While crossing the Atlantic, Donna briefly achieved Category 5 strength., http://www.myfootage.com/details.php?gid=58&sgid=&pid=19592

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[PrRican973]

amazing xD

[profoak1]

hopefully katia stays out at sea

[ASSAKESOMAN]

We traveled up into north jersey where tanker cars were just blown over on their sides.

We stopped along the different roads on bridges where we could see cranes lifting car after car back onto the rails.

Irene followed a very similar path to Donna.

I think northern jersey had wind gust as high as 138mph from Donna.

[ASSAKESOMAN]

I was about 5 years old when Donna hit New Jersey. I can still remember all of us hunkering down in the kitchen, hearing those howling winds for hours outside and the constant sound of trees snapping and crashing all around our house.

It must have been a day or so later that we all piled into the car and my father drove us all around the area looking at all the damage. But what I remember the most to this day were all the trains and rail cars that were just blown off their tracks.

[IZrocks1000]

LOL....persons

[Christianrocker1990]

The sound of that wind howling is scarey, and I stood outside in Hurricane Charley in '04.

[ashtonmg]

WOW