Intense hurricane winds pummel the shoreline. This rotating storm that carries winds of at least 74 miles (119 kilometers) an hour is called a "hurricane" when it develops over the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans. It is a "cyclone" when it forms over the Bay of Bengal and the northern Indian Ocean, and "typhoon" in the western Pacific.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "We’re Doing Something About the Weather!" April 1972, National Geographic magazine)