12 Biggest Hurricanes Ever Recorded in the World

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9. Camille

Wind: 175

Year: 1969

Damage: $1.42 billion

Hurricane Camille started off as just one more inverted “V”-shaped tropical wave off the African coast on August 5, 1969. By August 17, it turned into a gigantic hurricane. Camille made landfall in far western Cuba somewhere between Guano and Cape San Antonio and left around 20,000 people homeless.

Biggest Hurricanes Ever Recorded in the World

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