It was as if we were in the eye of a great hurricane.

The last time must have been the great hurricane of 1844.

It was as if, in the great hurricane that engulfed this city, I was walking into the eye of the storm.

In 1906, many of these newly rebuilt structures were destroyed by a great hurricane and tidal wave.

In the first year that the house was rented for this purpose it was destroyed by the great hurricane of 1780.

The church was later damaged in the great hurricane of 1831 but not destroyed.

It weathered the great hurricane that year but has not been able to withstand erosion.

The great hurricane of 1938 had struck, leaving some 600 dead and 65,000 homeless in its wake.

However, category 3 or greater hurricanes only account for about one-fifth of cyclones that make land every year.