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Hurricane Carmen occurred in 1974, and was subsequently retired due to the destruction it left behind. A Cape Verde storm originating as a wave off the African coast, it never really became a powerful storm until it reached Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula where it came ashore in a sparsely populated region as a high-end category 4 storm. It then emerged in the Gulf of Mexico and moved north, making landfall again in Louisiana causing extensive wind and flooding damage. However, between Mexico and the USA, it only killed 8 people.

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