Use a peat-based, âsoil-lessâ mix, consisting of at least 30-50% vermiculite and/or perlite. âVioletâ soils arenot necessarily good for violets! Go by the ingredients, not the label! A bag of good soil should feel like a nice, fluffy, soft, pillow. Add more perlite to soil the wetter you plant on keeping the plant.
1 Hurricane Fran--The most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the United States during the 1996 Hurricane Season. 2  Made landfall over North Carolina with 115 mph winds in September of that year, and caused some $3.2 billion dollars in damage at the time. 3  Damage estimates are even higher today. Colonial Hurricane of 1635--Was a powerful New England hurricane that struck the Massachussetts Bay Colony in 1635 some fifteen years after the Mayflower struck land at Plymouth Rock. 2  This storm had reminded many of the pilgrims and settlers of past hurricanes that struck in the West Indies or Caribbean.
The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane had estimated winds of 161 mile per hour, the third highest wind speed at landfall of any hurricane to strike the United States. The wind speed is estimated, using hurricanes with similar pressure readings at landfall, because of the lack of wind instruments at the time.atrina's highest storm surge of 25 to 28 feet occurred along the Mississippi coast. Also, this storm dropped 8 to 12 inches of rain inland from the northern Gulf coast and spawned thirty-three tornadoes. Meteorologists use sustained wind speed to determine what category a hurricane is.