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This is highly variable, but most hurricanes do their heaviest damage within 50 miles of making landfall. Once a hurricane makes landfall, it is cut off from it's power supply (the ocean) and it loses steam rapidly. By 100 miles inland, it is merely heavy thunderstorms

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