Hurricane PERSON@1 left thousands homeless in LOCATION@1 ; Tropical Storm Octave killed several people in one of LOCATION@2 's worst disasters ; and Hurricane PERSON@2 was a rare December cyclone .

Hurricane PERSON@1 left thousands homeless in LOCATION@3 ; Tropical Storm Octave killed several people in one of LOCATION@2 's worst disasters ; and Hurricane PERSON@2 was a rare December cyclone .
