text: what effect can a hurricane have?   well... that one is easy the hurricanes that hit places can have major effects! take into consideration hurricane katrina what effects that had on where it hit! hurricanes can have from minor effects such as a lot of wind that does some damage to houses and places, mild damage such as winds getting stronger and knocking over houses without any deaths of people, and then they can get bad which there are few deaths and completly destroyed houses, and then there is catastrophic such as katrina in which litterly flood, have deaths, destroy everything in its path, and much more! just remember that katrina almost completly knocked off that part of the usa!