Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida as a Category 4 storm on Sept. 26, 2024, then tore north through Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. But it was the southern Appalachian Mountains—particularly ...
It is hard to believe that the greatest climate disaster in American history occurred only 125 years ago. What would now be called a Category 4 hurricane made landfall at Galveston on Sept. 8, 1900.