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unusual facts about The Hurricane



East Jersey State Prison

The prison's distinctive architecture, with its large dome and imposing metal gates, has appeared in many films including Lock Up, Crazy Joe, Rounders, Malcolm X, He Got Game, The Hurricane, and Ocean's Eleven.

Former middleweight contender Rubin Carter, freed in 1985 after being sentenced to two consecutive life terms, was featured in the 1975 Bob Dylan song "Hurricane" and the 1999 film The Hurricane.

Hurricane!

In April 2011, executives of the Fox Broadcasting Company officially announced that "Hurricane!" would air on May 1 as part of the Night of the Hurricane crossover, alongside with The Cleveland Show episode "The Hurricane!" and Family Guy episode "Seahorse Seashell Party".


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1859 Atlantic hurricane season

The reconstruction of its track indicates that the hurricane tracked northward over the extreme eastern tip of Cuba, bringing heavy weather to Baracoa before entering the southeastern Bahamas.

1867 San Narciso hurricane

The hurricane weakened slightly before reaching Captaincy General of Puerto Rico later on 29 October, the memorial of Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem; following the Puerto Rican convention of naming hurricanes after the saint of the day on which a hurricane strikes the island, the storm acquired the name San Narciso.

1881 Atlantic hurricane season

The hurricane centre moved northward across the Wilmington-Wrightsville Beach area and then close to Norfolk, Virginia, before turning out to sea.

1885 Atlantic hurricane season

It paralleled the coast of Florida and Georgia, remaining offshore until its South Carolina landfall on the 25th as a Category 2 hurricane.The hurricane passed across North Carolina just west of Wilmington and Hatteras.

1887 Atlantic hurricane season

Although the hurricane passed far to the south of Cuba, it caused several vessels to sink at Batabanó and brought heavy rain and flooding to the islands interior.

1903 New Jersey hurricane

Rough surf and moderate winds from the hurricane capsized several ships along the East Coast of the United States; 30 people were left missing and presumed killed from a shipwreck in Chincoteague, Virginia.

1906 Florida Keys hurricane

The town of Bluefields suffered moderate damage during the hurricane, including downed trees and damage to roofs.

1922 Atlantic hurricane season

The hurricane remains the strongest Atlantic tropical cyclone above 30.4°N, since Hurricane Dog of 1950 weakened to below 150 mph (240 km/h) as it reached that latitude.

1928 Okeechobee hurricane

The effects of the hurricane on black migrant workers is dramatized in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

1935 Labor Day hurricane

Ernest Hemingway visited the veteran's camp by boat after weathering the hurricane at his home in Key West; he wrote about the devastation in a critical article titled Who Killed the Vet for The New Masses magazine.

2005 New York Giants season

The game was originally slated to be a home game for the Saints but had to be moved since the city of New Orleans was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, and the Louisiana Superdome was untenable after being used as an emergency shelter for locals displaced by the hurricane.

East Wake High School

Gregory Helms - professional wrestler best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where he wrestled as The Hurricane and Gregory Helms and also known for his time with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) where he wrestled as "Sugar" Shane Helms.

Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina

Furthermore, Jim Sensenbrenner, Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has refused to allow victims of the hurricane to take advantage of any exception to the recent Bankruptcy Reform, a recent bill passed with widespread support of the banking industry that aims to curb abuse of bankruptcy protection by repeat filers and those who are able to repay debts reasonably.

Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware

Governor Ruth Ann Minner declared a state of emergency prior to the arrival of the hurricane.

Effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina

The United States Geological Survey used sand from the ferry channel to the southwest of Hatteras Island, a choice made to minimize impact to submerged aquatic vegetation and due to the channel being filled somewhat during the hurricane.

Fay Hield

Orfeo, released May 2012, is Hield's second album, and sees the launch of a new line-up, Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party (Jon Boden, Rob Harbron, Sam Sweeney & Andy Cutting).

Glenn Younes

In addition to his radio work Glenn is the director of Eye of the Hurricane Foundation which is a non-profit charity organization founded by Ed Reed of the Baltimore Ravens.

Great Belize Television

Hurricane Iris: After the Storm (compilation of news stories on the hurricane; VHS)

Great Hurricane of 1780

By far the worst losses in the British fleet however were among the squadron of Rear-Admiral Joshua Rowley, which was caught at sea by the hurricane off the San Domingo coast.

Herbert Hardesty

His first trio performed at The Hurricane Bar (3726 S. Claiborne Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, a few blocks from where he was living) with Hardesty playing Double bass accompanied by a guitarist and pianist, similar to Nat King Cole's group.

Hurricane Audrey

The hurricane also dropped heavy rainfall, peaking at 10.63 in (270 mm) near Basile, Louisiana.

Hurricane David

It caused torrential damage across its path, most of which occurred in the Dominican Republic where the hurricane made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane.

The hurricane also interrupted the filming of the movie Caddyshack that was taking place at the Rolling Hills Country Club in Fort Lauderdale.

Hurricane Deck, Missouri

The bridge's design is similar to the I-35W Mississippi River bridge bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2007 (although the Hurricane Deck Bridge's main span is actually longer—462 feet vs. 458 feet—and the Hurricane Deck has piers in the water while the Minnesota bridge spanned both sides of the Mississippi).

Hurricane Katrina as divine retribution

Less than two weeks after the Hurricane, Pat Robertson implied on the September 12th broadcast of The 700 Club that the Hurricane was God's punishment in response to America's abortion policy.

Hy-Tek Hurricane 103

The Hurricane was originally developed as a clone of the Phantom X1 design by Jack Britton in the late 1980s and marketed under the name Avenger.

Invicta Watch Group

The donation was given to the American Red Cross to help those in need after the hurricane's destruction.

Isaac Cline

Writer Erik Larson argued in his book Isaac's Storm that Cline did not warn anyone in Galveston prior to the hurricane warning.

IZOD IndyCar World Championships

For 2005, the name of the race was changed to the Hurricane Relief 400, and it served as a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina recovery.

Jim Ferraro

Ferraro became a Sports Agent, and in the early 1980s went on to also represent a number of first-round draft picks from the Hurricane's early championship years, including Albert Bentley and Eddie Brown (the 1985 NFL "Rookie of the Year").

Mashina

Their early sound was obviously imitative of ska bands like Madness; they didn't bother to hide the influence, titling what became one of their earliest hit songs "Rakevet Laila Le-Kahir" ("Night Train to Cairo"), an homage to Madness' "Night Boat to Cairo", or "Geveret Sarah Hashchena" ("Miss Sarah, the Neighbour") that copied the theme, music and opening lyrics of Bob Dylan's "The Hurricane".

Meteorological history of Hurricane Jeanne

Upon moving inland in east-central Florida, the hurricane produced a storm tide of up to 10 feet (3 m) in St. Lucie County.

Narciso Martínez

Narciso Martínez (October 29, 1911 in Reynosa, Mexico – June 5, 1992 in San Benito, USA), dubbed early on, El Huracan del Valle ("The Hurricane of the Valley"), began recording in 1936, on October 21 precisely, and is the father of conjunto music.

Pearlington, Mississippi

Ten days after the hurricane more or less annihilated the tiny hamlet on the Louisiana state line, Jeff McVay and five other members of a state emergency response team from Walton County, Florida, arrived at the request of Hancock County.

People's United Party

This demand led to the construction of Belize's current capital, Belmopan, later in the decade, and of the village of Hattieville, 16 miles from the city, to host the hurricane's evacuees.

Press-Register

In the weeks and months following the hurricane, the Water Street headquarters published three daily newspapers at its facility – the Mobile Register, Times-Picayune and Mississippi Press.

RAF Henlow

During the Second World War Henlow was used to assemble the Hawker Hurricanes which had been built at the Hurricane factory operated by Canadian Car and Foundry in Fort William, Ontario, Canada, under the leadership of Elsie MacGill.

Randall's Food Markets

After Hurricane Ike, Randall's partnered with KHOU Channel 11, 104.1 KRBE, and Jack FM for the Hurricane Ike Relief Fund in order to help those in need.

Rosario Bagnasco

Among his works, A First Pain, completed in Florence, and awarded silver medal at the Exposition of Siracusa; The Madwoman, (stucco); The Fallen Angel (stucco); The Hurricane (marble); Gifts of Wind and Dawn, statuettes in marble; The Women of Messina (stucco); The Sicilian Vespers, (Scene in stucco); Busts of Maestro Petrella and Filippo Parlatore.

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

This project has inspired a new project, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, which is collecting the stories and digital artifacts related to the Hurricane Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.

Shotgate

The Hurricane fighter recalls the incident on 31 May 1940, when RAF Pilot Officer William Henry Hodgson, a New Zealander, engaged hostile bombers and fighters over the River Thames in his Hawker Hurricane, but it was hit and caught fire.

The Lonely Biscuits

In late 2012, the band was personally affected by Hurricane Sandy: Grady Wenrich originally came from the New Jersey coastal area devastated by the hurricane.

Wake Me Up When September Ends

A live version of the song, recorded on September 3, 2005, at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts was released soon after and dedicated to the hurricane's victims.