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Dana mentions hurricanes: "It was hurricane month, too, and we were just in the track of the tremendous hurricane of 1830, which swept the North Atlantic, destroying almost everything before it." The first hurricane I ever saw was in 1938, and though it was one of the biggest - we didn't know it was a hurricane until it was over.
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hurricane is simple the name for a tropical storm arising in the atlantic, the same type of tropical storm in the western pacific is a typhoon.
hurricane's etymology (from the American Hertiage Dictionary) ETYMOLOGY: Spanish huracán, from Taino hurákan; akin to Arawak kulakani, thunder.
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