Hurricane Floyd in Sept 1999

This article is about the hurricane of 1999. For other storms of the same name, see Hurricane Floyd (disambiguation).

Hurricane Floyd was a major hurricane which struck the Bahamas and the United States in 1999. The massive storm caused the largest peacetime evacuation ever in the U.S., with millions fleeing from coastal areas in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. The storm paralleled the coast of the four states, only about 60-70 miles (100-110km) offshore, narrowly averting disaster for hundreds of miles of coastline. PD NOAA picture of Hurricane Floyd File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The name Floyd was used for four tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean. ... This article is about weather phenomena. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Evacuation can have several meanings: In wilderness first aid, evacuation is the transport of a seriously injured person out of the wilderness to the nearest point an ambulance can reach to take them to the hospital, or to the nearest emergency room. ... COAST, an acronym for Cache On A STick, is a packaging standard for modules containing SRAM used as an L2 cache in a computer. ... State nickname: Everglade State, Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... The Carolinas is a collective term used in the United States to refer to the states of North and South Carolina together. ... The term Parallel has a number of important meanings: Parallel (geometry) occurs in geometry. ... A U.S. state is any one of the 50 states (four of them use the term commonwealth) which have membership in the federation known as the United States of America (USA or U.S.). The separate state governments and the U.S. federal government share sovereignty, in that an... A mile is any of several units of distance, or, in physics terminology, of length. ... KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre/Kilometer (only km in minuscule is the correct representation of kilometer as an SI unit of length) Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management, in the field of Library and information science Knowledge Machine, the KM knowledge representation...

Floyd made landfall on the North Carolina coast on September 16, and went on to cause torrential rains and high winds throughout the rest of the mid-atlantic as far north as New York City. By the time Floyd hit the shore, it was significantly weaker than it was at sea, which was caused by the collapsing of its concentric eyes. Nevertheless, Floyd caused large power outages and flood damage across the mid-Atlantic. Recently, Floyd has been compared to Hurricane Isabel. Landfall has two meanings: Landfall, Minnesota the place or time at which a hurricane or waterspout, or even a boat hits land Landfall is also the title of New Zealands most important literary journal. ... State nickname: Tar Heel State Other U.S. States Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Governor Michael Easley Official languages English Area 139,509 km² (28th)  - Land 126,256 km²  - Water 13,227 km² (9. ... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... Rain is a form of precipitation, other forms of which include snow, sleet, hail, and dew. ... Wind is the quasi-horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by a horizontal pressure gradient force. ... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg Area  - Land  - Water 1,214. ... Duration: Sept. ...

A 2004 study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that babies living in the hardest-hit part of North Carolina reported higher rates of traumatic brain injury than in other parts of the state. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the eleventh-oldest institution of higher education and the oldest public university in the United States. ... A human infant The word Infant derives from the Latin in-fans, meaning unable to speak. ... Brain damage or brain injury is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells. ...

See also

• List of notable tropical cyclones
• 1999 Atlantic hurricane season
• Cape Verde-type hurricane