A similar storm hit Bangladesh a while back; it too was tracked by satellite.
Why is Hurricane Gilbert so much more powerful than similar storms?
It is estimated if a similar storm were to strike as of the year 2003, it would cause $18.7 billion in damages.
To add to the anxiety, the driver tells a story of some recent travelers who got lost and froze to death in a similar storm.
Still, investors have weathered similar storms during the last decade and have emerged way ahead.
A similar storm on the night of Oct. 15-16, 1987, had killed considerably fewer people but caused more extensive material damage.
Later in the month, another storm similar to Bernice existed.
He said a similar storm caused heavy flooding in West Virginia four years ago.
In a similar storm in 1962 most of the few hundred houses then in the town were destroyed.
In 1915, a storm similar in strength and track to the 1900 hurricane struck Galveston.