Can you name the U.S. States with the Most Hurricanes? by explodingtrees

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States with the Most Hurricanes Quiz

by explodingtrees

Created Oct 17, 2010 in Geography
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	mikepmeyers:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 03:14 GMT	1 point
	Interesting quiz! Maybe too much time. Weird to see Louisiana has so many compared to Mississippi, I figured they'd be about the exact same.

	explodingtrees:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 03:28 GMT	15 points
	@mikepmeyers: It makes more sense when you think in terms of landfalls rather than simply whether a state was hit by a hurricane. Louisiana has so much more coastline than Mississippi, so that's why.

	kennyb:	Oct 18th, 2010 at 14:07 GMT	-2 points
	You can go one minute less, I think.

	bigsoxfan:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 03:11 GMT	4 points
	I'm surprised how North Carolina has more than South Carolina

	explodingtrees:	Oct 19th, 2010 at 04:31 GMT	9 points
	@kennyb: Agreed. I reduced the time to one minute. @bigsoxfan: If you look at a map, the outer banks of North Carolina poke out into the ocean. Since North Carolina sticks out like this, it "catches" hurricanes as they go by. Hurricanes at this latitude tend to be heading north or turning east, which tend to make them turn away from South Carolina.

	thedpr:	Aug 28th, 2011 at 02:06 GMT	3 points
	You should note that this is Atlantic hurricanes only. Hawaii has certainly seen more than 15 hurricanes hit it in the last 150 years.

	Chris968:	Aug 28th, 2011 at 03:22 GMT	19 points
	Not a fan of being forced to guess in order with only one minute.

	shakescene:	Aug 28th, 2011 at 09:57 GMT	8 points
	I don't like time limits anyway, but you have to stop someone guessing all 50 states. Either increase the time limit or if you only leave a minute, then don't require them in order. By the way, that's all of the 11 Confederate states except Ark & Tenn (inland) and Va (presumably protected by N. Carolina). Alternatively, they're all the 7 seceding states who met at Montgomery in February 1861 plus North Carolina. Don't ask me why cotton and hurricanes flourish in the same area.

	british:	Aug 28th, 2011 at 15:54 GMT	2 points
	Okay I got them all in order and now Im a little spooked.

	Dralcoffin:	Aug 29th, 2011 at 02:43 GMT	2 points
	@shakescene: Hurricanes and cotton like the same thing: Humidity and warmth all year long.

	midlifecrisis:	Aug 29th, 2011 at 16:59 GMT	2 points
	ran out of time and missed Mississippi

	StatsChick:	Aug 30th, 2011 at 18:55 GMT	0 points
	@thepdr, they aren't called hurricanes in the Pacific ocean, so there is no need to clarify

	HollywoodLeo:	Sep 2nd, 2011 at 07:32 GMT	3 points
	No need to force us to guess in order.

	thedpr:	Sep 2nd, 2011 at 16:07 GMT	2 points
	@StatsChick: US National Weather Service begs to differ. http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/cphc/

	M_C_HAMEL:	Sep 3rd, 2011 at 18:29 GMT	2 points
	Pretty much guess the southern state with the longest coastlines (with a few exceptions of course)

	MattAtkins:	May 1st, 2012 at 18:55 GMT	1 point
	way to short