Hurricane Box Score: 4 For U.S.
|NU Online News Service, Dec. 5, 11:44 a.m.EST?The Atlantic Hurricane season, which just ended, haddouble the normal amount of hurricane activity for the period, aweather consulting firm said in its recap of storm activity for theyear.
|Compu-Weather of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., noted that there were12 named storms. Eight of those storms reached U.S. soil, which thecompany said is twice the average amount for a season.
|Four of those eight were hurricanes.
|Total damage in the United States from all storms this seasonamounted to about $900 million, according to Compu-Weather.
|The company said Louisiana was the hardest hit state, afterbeing clouted by four storms, including powerful Hurricane Lili andTropical Storm Isidore.
|Lili, which weakened from a 140 mph Category 4 to a 100 mphCategory 2 storm just before making landfall, was the firsthurricane to hit the United States since 1999, the firm noted.
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