Hurricane Pauline (颶風(fēng)寶蓮)

 Time: Oct. 5 –10, 1997

Areas: Mexico, Southwestern Guerrero, Oaxaca

Fatalities: 250 --400

Damage: US$447.8 million (1997 USD)

Hurricane Pauline is known as one of the deadliest and strongest hurricanes to ever make landfall in Mexico. The recorded strongest winds of the hurricane were 130 mph (215 km/h); its lowest pressure 948 mbar. The overall damage caused by Pauline amounted to a staggering $447.8 million (1997 USD), including the destruction of tens of thousands of houses which left a massive number of 300,000 people homeless.