The Great Hurricane of 1780, which took nine days to blast its way across the Caribbean and killed at least 20,000, is reconstructed in an attempt to learn what made it so devastating.
Killer Hurricanes pursues the riddle of an 18th century Caribbean superstorm that killed 20,000, the highest known death toll of any single weather event. To reconstruct its epic scale and investigate what made it so devastating, NOVA joins historians and storm sleuths as they track down clues in eyewitness chronicles, old ruins, and computer simulations.