Not even close, in terms of strength. It is barely a category 3 as of the evening of the 25th. We'll see how it ranks in a few days after it rakes the East Coast.
By several measures, it was one of the worst. Directly killing 11,000 people does put it up there pretty high, though the damage totals weren't nearly as much as some others (Katrina and Andrew for...
Hurricane Katrina is the most destructive hurricane on record at a cost of $105 billion, but, with a death toll of 1,836 it is nowhere near being the deadliest as a number of tropical cyclones...
Hurricane Katrina is not necessarily the worst Atlantic Hurricane on record, though it is definitely one of the worst. It is the costliest in terms of damage but not the deadliest. Hurricane Katrina...