[circlecity]

I recall reading that the most intense hurricanes in the last 150 years were back in the 1920s and 1930s.

[thackney]

I think for the US, the worst was the 1900 storm that hit Galveston.

http://www.1900storm.com/

http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/magazine/galv_hurricane/welcome.html