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What causes greatest number of deaths during hurricanes?

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it would be from flooding i think

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because most people die in hurricanes from drowning, and flooding would most likely cause that.

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Well before the modern age of satellites, television, and instant communication, a storm surge of up to 15 feet, with battering waves, claimed most of the 8,000 to 12,000 lives lost in the Galveston, Texas 1900 hurricane, the nation's deadliest.
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