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Hurricane Damage
Photo: Man observes hurricane damage as winds reach 100 mph
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A Corpus Christi resident surveys storm damage as Hurricane Allen pelts the Texas coast in 1980. Storms need warm water, moist air, and converging equatorial winds to become hurricanes.
Photograph by Annie Griffiths Belt

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