This picture of Hurricane Ivan on the eve of its power (it was a category 5 hurricane in 2004) was taken by the International Space Station. Ivan destroyed 90% of the houses on Grenada. Ivan's winds were greater than 200kmph which ranked it category 5 on the Simpson-Saffir scale, the common scale for hurricane ferocity. Ivan as a name for a hurricane has now been retired from Atlantic Ocean use by the World Meteorological Organization. Woot woot.
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