eptember 6, 2017: Irma hit the Leeward Islands with winds over 180 mph. The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda described Barbuda as "barely habitable."
September 7: Irma left hundreds in Puerto Rico without power. It hit the northern part of Haiti and the Dominican Republic with 15 inches of rain.
September 8: Irma remained a Category 5 hurricane with wind of 175 mph. It affected the Turks and Caicos Islands and eastern Bahamas. The storm passed over waters warmer than 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit.) That's warm enough to feed a Category 5 storm. Barbuda's government issued a watch for Hurricane Jose.
September 9: Irma affected the north coast of Cuba flooding Havana. Winds at 150 mph and waves at 29 feet. Wind gusts of 55
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The interruption measures up to the record set by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which left 8m homes without control for a normal of eight days. The moving of America's populace to beach front groups, where 39% of the populace live, implies Americans are more helpless against rising tides. One out of 12 lives in a home that can expect a 1% possibility of flooding in any given year, as indicated by information distributed in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers in June. Urban improvement on floodplains moderated in the vicinity of 2001 and 2011, however not in Manhattan and Miami. Around 15% of Manhattan and 40% of Miami are in surge hazard zones.
President Trump declared emergencies in Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. On September 6, Florida's Governor ordered residents of the Keys to evacuate.
The Facts on Hurricane Irma's Damage
As of September 23, 2017, the death toll was 102 people, including 75 in Florida. Of those, 11 seniors perished in a nursing home that lost its air conditioning. Fourteen people died in the Florida Keys.
Irma damaged 90 percent of the buildings on Barbuda. It destroyed almost all communication, and left 60 percent of the population homeless. The government evacuated 300 citizens to Antigua. Florida officials ordered 6.5 million people to evacuate. There were 77,000 people in 450 shelters.
The most rain in the state fell on Fort Pierce.
Over the past decade, the world has experienced more natural disaster than people can count. Floods, mudslides, earthquakes, and raging fires are just a few of the events that have stripped people away from their families, homes, and possessions. The deadliest of these natural disasters are hurricanes. Extremely strong winds mixed with large waves can cause enormous damage, taking months, even years for towns to recover. Hurricane Katrina left millions of people without homes and families torn apart. Hurricane Sandy demolished the Jersey coast, leaving years of repair work behind. The most recent and powerful hurricane that surfaced is Hurricane Maria. A level five hurricane, Hurricane Maria ripped straight through the United States territory of Puerto Rico. The island lost power, supplies
Numerous different aspects were altered due to the ruckus of Hurricane Katrina. The first major aspect was housing and location. Katrina nearly demolished 300,000 homes. The ascending sea level along the coast resulting from onshore winds is a storm surge. With a twenty-two foot storm surge in New Orleans and a twenty-seven foot storm surge in Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina averaged a shocking twelve foot storm surge. As a storm surge’s footage increases, the surge will continue to move inland farther and farther. Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge is documented as moving inland a total of twelve miles into the state of Mississippi (FAQS, 2013). Hurricane Katrina impacted a total of seven states. Five of these states were Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Kentucky and Ohio were two more states affected but in a different way. Because of the tremendous amount of water, Kentucky and Ohio were victims of the Mississippi River flooding. Some states experienced more extreme destruction than others. Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana experienced Hurricane Katrina’s wrath firsthand. These three southern states were affected the worst by the massive storm (FAQS, 2013). Mississippi’s forest industry experienced a great amount of destruction losing 1.3 million acres of valuable forest land. The main cause of destruction in New Orleans was blamed on the failure of the levee system to stand its ground
Hurricane Maria has hit Puerto Rico, destroying buildings leaving its approximately 3.4 million residents largely without electricity. Hurricane Maria crashed into Puerto Rico early Wednesday as a “Potentially Catastrophic” Category 4 storm that was set to become the most powerful to strike the US territory in almost 90 years.
Class 5 Hurricane Irma has recently struck the eastern coast of the United States; while many other natural disasters are affecting the country as well.
A tropical wave developed into a tropical depression about 140 mi (230 km) east of the Yucatán Peninsula on August 17. Moving north-northwestward, the depression soon strengthened into a tropical storm. Early on August 18, the system crossed the Yucatán Channel and entered the Gulf of Mexico. While nearing the coast of Louisiana on August 19, the storm slowed down, turned westward, and intensified into a Category 1 hurricane. Late on August 19, the hurricane attained its maximum sustained wind speed of 80 mph (130 km/h). The cyclone curved west-northwestward and weakened slightly before making landfall near Crystal Beach, Texas, with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h) around 13:00 UTC on August 21. At landfall, the barometric pressure fell to 992
Ships were left stranded and wrecked miles away from moorings. Thousands of homes were washed away into the sea. Approximately 3,600 buildings were destroyed. Everything that was destroyed was bulldozed 15 blocks from the beach. The damage cost was 20 million (700 million today). It was the third costliest hurricane in U.S. history. 8,000-12,000 of the 37,000 people that lived in Galveston, Texas died, which was 20% of the population that was lost. From the remaining survivors, 30,000 were left
Six deaths in Florida have been blamed on Irma, along with three in Georgia and one in South Carolina. At least 35 people were killed in the Caribbean.
After Hurricane Sandy there was a bunch of damage done to theses states : Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, and the U.S. (“Superstorm Sandy”). “The hurricane left an estimated 200,000 people without shelter” (“Superstorm Sandy”). The property damage was an estimate from between $30-$50 billion (“Superstorm Sandy’’). Many people had no home for a long time nothing to come home to or
a billion in losses to boats in southeast Florida. The damage to Louisiana is estimated at $1
Florida's workers were affected greatly by Hurricane Irma. They worked less shifts to properly prepare for the storm and lost productivity. The main industries that were affected in Florida were tourism
As for jacksonvill with high tides and the torrential rains that was driven by irmas winds. As before 9:00 am streets became streams of water, a man waked up to 3ft of water in his so called “Man Cave” named Mr.Jenkins. Soon enough the eye of the storm came to shore, the storm was tracked west heading into miami with 90,000 under an evacuation order. As one resident mr levine had said “didn’t dodge a bullet, we dodged a cannon,” i think he was talking about how this was huge, a major event that could have killed them but they dodged this by taking a big step of staying home. As more residents return home some unlucky as for some who had just moved hear a month ago, coming home to a foot of water in their driveway, for Naple florida it has had the worst strikes for most
For example, Hurricane Maria, that name has been retired due to its destruction, reaching wind speeds of 160 miles per hour as a Category 5 passing first through the Caribbean. Hurricane Maria then worked its way demolishing Puerto Rico with wind speeds of 150 miles per hour and pouring out about 40 inches of rain causing it to flood (AccessScience Editors, 2017).
Recent hurricanes like Harvey that hit in Houston, Texas and Irma that touched down in Florida
Hurricanes are one of nature’s most natural occurrences and intense phenomenal storms. Yet, as phenomenal as they are, they are still one of the deadliest and disastrous natural occurrences that continue to plague costal residents with fears of their homes being destroyed, their towns wiped out, and loved ones either disappearing or dying.
The first mistake the Jacksonville’s weather bureau made was to call all extra relief workers and coast guards from New York and New England down to Florida to prepare for the storm. While looking out and protecting Florida, they took many needed hands from the northeast, which was hit harder. Their second mistake, a more important one, was to assume this storm was another typical Cape Verde hurricane because it began to veer northward. Those storms were known to curve away from the tropics at first opportunity and head north for colder water where it would soon die off before hitting the US. It followed this specific course by the Bermuda High currents, “a mass of dense dry air that dominates the weather in the North