Three weeks after a hurricane battered the Carolina coast, this inland city remains so littered with downed magnolias and willow oaks that officials are asking parents to keep children at home on Halloween.

It was now early August, and, already, two hurricanes in two weeks had battered the shoreline.

This massive hurricane not only battered the Honduran coastline, but engulfed nearly the entire country with its powerful winds and torrential downpours.

The building, much modified over the years, had become the official residency of the Head of State until recently, when two hurricanes battered it into an unlivable state.

Agency officials said that if the hurricane battered many states beyond North Carolina, it would strain resources that are still largely committed to helping flood victims.

A brown-streaked hurricane battered the primary continent.

I had taken cuttings of my beloved roses, and in my fright I clung to them as the hurricane tumbled and battered me.

The morning after the most powerful hurricane of the century battered Jamaica in mid-September, Heinz Simonitsch walked through the wreckage of the elegant beach resort he manages here.

Mr. Gore depicted a future in which temperatures soar, ice sheets melt, seas rise, hurricanes batter the coasts and people die en masse.

Off of Tripoli, a large hurricane battered the Pearl (though it survived) and the Dauntless, which sank, along with most of its crew.