[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

[shove_it]

Hurricane Andrew (1992) was THE BIG ONE hitting Florida’s SE coast ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaxihQsMXjQ

Uploaded on Dec 20, 2009
Hurricane Andrew was only the third Category 5 storm to impact the U.S. when it made landfall on August 24, 1992 near Homestead, FL. A reanalysis of weather data in 2004 revealed that the storm made landfall with 166 mph winds. Until Hurricane Katrina followed in 2005, Andrew was the most costly U.S. tropical cyclone in history, with damages exceeding $26.5 billion (1992 USD). This animation was created by resurrecting archived GOES-7 satellite data.

Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)